Exciting News! 🚀

I'm thrilled to announce that my AI Assistant (formerly known as Jarvis) is evolving, and the team is growing!

We've taken everything you love about this intelligent assistant and are transforming it into a more powerful, sleeker product: ZipBot.ai. This new platform will not only include all the features you've come to rely on but also introduce a host of new capabilities designed to make your life even easier.

👉 What does this mean for you? More power, more features, and an even better user experience.

But, before we officially launch, we want YOU to be a part of our journey. Sign up for the beta at https://zipbot.ai and be the first to experience the future of intelligent assistance.

Your feedback during this beta phase will be invaluable as we fine-tune ZipBot.ai to perfection. Don't miss out on this opportunity to shape the future of AI assistance.

Thank you for your continued support and enthusiasm. We can't wait to embark on this exciting new chapter with you!

Thanks,

The ZipBot.ai Team

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AI Assistant (Jarvis)

An intelligent assistant. This is a work in progress. Don't hate over the name... I was younger, and less creative.

Features

• ✅ Chat with the AI (Conversation-Only Mode)
• ✅ AI Assistant (Tool-Using Mode)
  • ✅ Get the News, Weather, etc.
  • ✅ Upload your Documents, and talk about them with the AI, including:
    • Search for information
    • Review and comment on documents
    • Summarize a topic or whole documents
    • Perform multi-hop queries, such as "What is the capital of the country that has the highest population in Europe?"
• ✅ Software Engineering Assistant
  • ✅ Ingest your GitHub or GitLab repositories!
  • ✅ Code Understanding
    • ✅ Ask the AI to perform tasks, such as:
      • Coding work, while taking into context existing code
      • Summarization of code functionality
      • Code reviews
      • Code documentation
      • Unit test creation

• AI Framework Using LangChain
• UI Framework Using Streamlit
• Local models running using llama.cpp via llama-cpp-python
  • Note: This functionality has been removed for now, as I was not maintaining it.

Running Jarvis in Docker

In order to install the assistant using Docker, you'll need the following:

Pre-requisites for running in Docker

• Docker (Docker Desktop is what I use) installed and running on your computer
• Git (Optional- you can just grab the docker-compose.yml and .env.template from the GitHub UI here)
• An OpenAI Account and API key

The steps to run the docker version is as follows:

Running Jarvis

1. Get the files
   • Clone the assistant repo: git clone https://github.com/aronweiler/assistant.git
   • OR download the docker-compose.yml and .env.template files
2. Edit the .env.template file, changing the following items:
   • OPENAI_API_KEY - This is your Open AI API key (required for interacting with OpenAI models- the primary model for this application).
   • POSTGRES_* entries can be pretty much anything you want, all of this will be local to your machine.
   • USER_EMAIL - Put your email in here (required for a user on the system- some features will use this)
3. Rename the .env.template to .env
4. Using a command line, navigate to the directory where you cloned the code, and run docker-compose up -d
5. Browse to http://localhost:8500

Updating Jarvis (Docker)

If you are currently at version 0.64 or earlier, you will need to follow these instructions.

🥳 Following these update instructions WILL NOT ERASE YOUR DATA 🥳

Run the following commands in a terminal window in the same directory as the Jarvis docker-compose.yml:

• docker-compose down assistant-ui
• docker pull aronweiler/assistant:latest
  • Alternatively, you can use the version number in place of latest, e.g. docker pull aronweiler/assistant:0.45
• docker-compose up -d assistant-ui
• Navigate to http://localhost:8500

Note: After updating you will need to re-enable/disable any tools that you previously changed on the Settings page.

⚠️ DATABASE CONTAINER WARNING ⚠️

The docker container that has the database in it is currently used primarily by me for development, so it does not mount a volume for the database.
When you delete the DB docker container, ALL OF YOUR DATA WILL BE ERASED.

Feel free to alter this behavior on your instance, if you like.

FireFox Browser UI Compatibility

In FireFox, the :has() CSS feature is turned off, which can cause weird display issues. To enable it, follow these steps:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter.
3. Click "Accept the Risk and Continue" to access the advanced settings.
4. Use the search bar at the top to find the setting for enabling experimental features. This might be something like layout.css.has-selector.enabled.
5. If you find the relevant setting for :has(), click on the toggle button to set its value to true.

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Here's a lot of info on running this in Python!

Note: This is probably out of date, as I don't really support anyone looking at my gross code 🤣

Python Prerequisites

1. Install the python requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Install Whisper and Torch (for Voice Interactions)

I'm using their github, but feel free to use the python packages.

pip install --upgrade --no-deps --force-reinstall git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git

pip3 install --force-reinstall --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/cu121

2. Set up the database

The database is required for conversations, file upload, user management, etc.

Database-related Environment Variables

Set the following environment variables for database access:

POSTGRES_DB=<your desired database name>
POSTGRES_USER=<user>
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<password>
POSTGRES_HOST=<database location>
POSTGRES_PORT=5432

Note: When setting the database up, the create/migration scripts have their own settings - so you may need to adjust these.

- Run the PGVector (postgres) docker image:

Pull and run the PGVector docker file, following instructions here: PGVector GitHub

You can also run my docker-compose file via docker-compose up -d from the database folder.

- Create the database

After creating and running the database docker image, you need to create the actual database.

Run the create_database.py python script.

This creates the database... but for some reason the vector extension is not create.

Connect to the new database, and run: CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS vector;

- Set up database migrations:

Migrations make it easy to add/change/remove things from the database when you already have data in there.

- Alembic for migrations setup:

To use Alembic for migrations, you'll need to set up a directory structure for Alembic to manage the migrations. First, create a directory named migrations in your project root. Then, initialize Alembic inside this directory:

alembic init migrations

This will create an alembic.ini file and a versions directory inside the migrations directory. The versions directory is required, but the alembic.ini is not!

- Running migrations:

1. Run generate_migration.py
   • This will generate the migrations that contain the changes (or just the initial database) between the current DB and any modifications that have been made to the DB models in code.
2. Run run_migration.py
   • This will push those changes to the database, safely migrating your data.

More info on the database

See Memory