Ask HN: How do you use local LLMs?

What applications(as in use cases, not in software names) have you found for local LLMs that you use yourself on a daily basis, and which LLMs do you use?

4 points | by Haeuserschlucht 23 hours ago

1 comments

henry_flower 23 hours ago
not exactly daily, but I use llama3.2-vision (via ollama) to generate a .txt file alongside every photo I take, containing a description of the photo. then I can just grep for, say, "selfie":
```
    $ alias omglol='find -name \*txt | xargs -n50 grep -li'
    $ omglol selfie
    ./10/IMG_20241019_204444.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082108.txt
    ./09/IMG_20240930_082118.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154559.txt
    ./07/IMG_20240712_154554.txt
```
or to do a slide show:
```
    $ omglol selfie | sed s/txt/jpg/ | xargs feh
```
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- pizza 3 hours ago
  You might be able to load up all the txt files into the embedded vector db in `llm` so that you could also query them semantically.
- Haeuserschlucht 17 hours ago
  Great idea!