I have a self-hosted AI system that works pretty well. I can interact with it via my phone, the shell, my IRC server, and I can verbally talk to it.
But I want to get it to remember things, so I need to start working on RAG or something. Eventually I’d like to be able to have it draft emails for me, and schedule appointments.
One thing that I find useful is that you can do --filesync with an existing zip, which means it only updates the files if the date/size don’t match. This saves a bunch of time on large archives that don’t need to be created from scratch every time.