Personal AI assistants
Ready-made — install & chat, 24/7 (Hermes, OpenClaw)
Out-of-the-box agents you install and talk to like a 24/7 personal assistant — they browse the web, run tasks, remember across sessions, and reach you from messaging apps. Hermes and OpenClaw, both self-hosted and free to run on your own models. → You don't build these; you use them to automate your own digital life. To build an agent yourself from scratch, see "Agent frameworks".
After this chapter you can
→ Run a private, always-on agent on your own machine
→ Reach an agent from Telegram, Signal, or Slack
→ Have an agent run scheduled, multi-step errands
0/2 courses done — a course counts as done once you've finished all its lessons
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Videos tutorials on YouTube | ▶ 9 | ▶ 2 |
| Detailed course hands-on lessons & templates | Open → | Open → |
| Animated walkthrough watch each lesson play out | ▶ | ▶ |
| Self-host on your own machine you run it, you own the data | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to run | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reach it from phone chat apps WhatsApp / Telegram / Signal | ◐ | ✓ |
| Long-term memory of you remembers across sessions | ✓ | ◐ |
| Writes / extends its own skills a self-improving toolset | ✓ | ◐ |
| Use your own / local models BYO or fully local LLMs | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ strong · ◐ partial · ✗ no · scores are qualitative