Hermes Agent, LLMs and SLMs

[littleman]

You all should be looking into Hermes.  A couple of years ago we had a conversation about AI driven projects that can manage other AI systems and get actual work done.  I am just diving in now, but it looks quite capable.

https://hermes-agent.org/

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/

[rcjordan]

> I am just diving in now
> Hold my beer, Bubba, I'm going in

Installing on a laptop? linux mini-pc?  Your raspberry-pi?

Keep us posted.

[ergophobe]

> "give it your messaging accounts"

Mmm... I'm not comfortable with that. How are you using it and how are you sandboxing it?

[littleman]

>How are you using it and how are you sandboxing it?

Use Docker, a VM or a machine without any sensitive information.

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/docker
https://openclawlaunch.com/guides/hermes-agent-docker

[littleman]

> "give it your messaging accounts"

I messed with email.  Google has a app token system where you can give an app a unique password and limited access.

[ergophobe]

So, for example, you can give it read only access to your email?

I guess the problem for me is that being mostly retired, I just don't have that much email volume and so I don't think feeding it into an LLM would be a big advantage for me.

[littleman]

I don't know about read access.  That might be a setting available in Gmail, but I haven't looked into it.  I did use it to send myself a test email.  When reaching out to the world I am going to have Hermes have it's own accounts so that there is a wall between it and my personal information.

I am setting up a dedicated "server", an old desktop I use to use for work.  I am going to be running it headless (no GUI interface) and use tmux to have a persistent session with Hermes that I can log in and out of while keeping Hermes running in the background. 

My goal is to build a low effort information based businesses with a subscription model.  I am still working out the plan, but it seems like an interesting experiment.  I want it to be 99% automated and I am going to document the process. 

It isn't going to be anything fancy, I will be using Hermes the way someone would be using a smart intern to get the bulk of the work done.