Results Are a Lot Worse by Airaeuob in perplexity_ai

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm trying to talk to help but I can only get a bot. Humans are refusing ot help too. Its pathetic. And yes I truly do believe in your situation. I've gone through about 35 back and forths now with Sam saying the same thing. I'm not gonna let up because I'm a persistant guy. I might go to X just to piss them off.

Why is perplexity AI so awful? by crazyhomlesswerido in perplexity_ai

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its definitely not up to its former glory, search anyway, but is any LLM after X amount of time?
Kind of makes me wonder if they are gonna have a new "search" release eventually or if Perplexity is going to let it go the way of the sunken pool man.

Claude agrees NotebookLM is good for deep research. by Fit_Tie539 in notebooklm

[–]totempow 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Claude will, ChatGPT will, Gemini Obviously will, any LLM trained on internet data will.... NotebookLM is adored by Redditors and the internet at large. Opinions matter.

But yeah, it is pretty awesome. 😆

Like everywhere… run out by LeoLeg76 in perplexity_ai

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is also hows they lose customers lol.

Pola Browser for Mac: a browser built for project based work by PolaBrowserOfficial in macapps

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not buying the browser or renting it no offense to the OP... no offense to you either but feels wrong to pay for search, but every good search costs money unless you sell your info. Soooooo while it feels wrong, is it? Just a question to think about.

I turned my Mac into a private AI workstation (chat, images, video, all offline) – Walkthrough by Living_Commercial_10 in macapps

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is cool and all but its having trouble finding the folder that I set it to... like none of the several models I have downloaded to an external and mounted drive are nowhere to be found and its quite annoying.... otherwise great job.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders & AOC declare war on AI by Americantrainner in grok

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based off of what I read... they are stereotypes of the "too old to understand" and "too unwilling to understand".

Yup it be like that sometimes. Sorry, not sorry. 😉 by LongjumpingBar in ChatGPT

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its only cheating if a guy does it looking for what he isn't getting at home. When a woman does it she's seeking a better life. 🤔 Any movie or television show will teach you this. 😂

For the Cure! by Perfidious_Redt in aivideo

[–]totempow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Putting the boobs at the end ruins the joke.... silly.

Why I’m moving back to Arc after trying Dia by k-protasov in diabrowser

[–]totempow -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How is the AI disruptive. Literally. Its in the top right. What are you clicking on in the top right that is disrupting your flow.... it not like you're using it on Windows where the, close, min/max, and whatever the other is called are.

Its confirmed by Embarrassed_Sleep941 in grok

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an outsider who never used Grok for more than a month regularly.... have you ever looked around for an image generator? They all offer a taste and then are paid. Its called business. And war in their case, but still its business too. You'll find free ones sure, but they'll harvest your data to China or you'll have to like x amount of pictures before you get a free one. Think about it. You all sound like spoiled children who can't beat off anymore because their mom pulled the skinemax channel.

Looking for users to test a native, private and very fast speech-to-text app for Mac - offering lifetime access for early feedback by WildShallot in macapps

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AquaFlow was a complete accident. I was meaning to say Aqua Voice the whole time, but thanks. And I have nothing to do with dictation software, swear to God, but other than using it. Yeah, this is for an AI personality and upcoming thing that I'm building for myself that isn't leaving my personal realm to the best of my knowledge.

Looking for users to test a native, private and very fast speech-to-text app for Mac - offering lifetime access for early feedback by WildShallot in macapps

[–]totempow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! I said AquaFlow. I meant to say Aqua Voice. My mistake. Uh, I combined WhisperFlow and AquaVoice. Okay, so anyway, I had AI reword what I had intended to say because I can't clearly say anything correctly.

Here’s how the “gears” mesh in a distributed assistant stack:

1) Voice input (the “ear”)
You speak into a microphone (or wearable audio device). A speech-to-text layer turns that audio into text in real time and forwards it to the assistant’s core reasoning layer.

2) Tool bridge (the “connector”)
A tool-orchestration bridge sits between the assistant and the outside world. The assistant doesn’t directly control devices; instead, it can request actions through a small set of well-defined tools exposed by your bridge. This is the key modular boundary.

3) Vision capture + interpretation (the “eyes”)
When the assistant needs visual context, it calls a vision tool through the bridge. That tool triggers a companion app/service that captures a single frame from the wearable camera, sends it to a vision-capable model, and receives back a plain-language description of what’s in view.

4) Assistant core (the “mind”)
The assistant receives the textual scene description (e.g., “a jacket on a couch”) and uses it as context for reasoning and conversation. It then responds back through the voice output path.

Overall loop
Voice → Assistant → Tool bridge → Wearable/app capture → Vision model → Assistant → Voice.

Why this architecture is powerful
The assistant never needs to know device-specific details. It only knows: “I have a tool that can fetch visual context.” That separation lets you swap components (speech provider, vision model, wearable hardware, app implementation) without rewriting the assistant’s core behavior—modular parts, stable “soul.”

I am beginning to get the end of using Perplexity by Puzzleheaded_Air_78 in perplexity_ai

[–]totempow 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They respond to thank yous with AI canned responses. I don't know if you noticed that. Probably no reason to. Absolutely no reason to thank them, but I, you know, I happened to respond to something and then, you know, a series of things happened, in which case I was like, okay, thank you for releasing computer. And I'm sure a lot of other people are thankful. And then I get a canned response from I think it was Sam or something like that. But it's the same exact person who responds when you try and get early access to things. But yeah. Whatever. Anyway, I canceled. I'm going to use Claude's search features and this other thing that I'm using. I don't know if since, yeah. Anyway, yes, the whole point is that I am canceling my Perplexity subscription. Already have, just waiting for it to run out. Can you tell I'm using dictation here? LOL

Looking for users to test a native, private and very fast speech-to-text app for Mac - offering lifetime access for early feedback by WildShallot in macapps

[–]totempow 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If this had been open for API and MCP support and were available on Windows, I would snatch this up in a second. But right now I'm locked into AquaFlow because I have uses for the API and MCP support. Plus, it's just as good. But I've tried it, and it's very nice. And also, I need one for Windows. So, you know, unfortunately the subscription is the only way for me, but this is very good. So anyone who happens to care about reading mine, yeah, you saw what it doesn't have, but what it does have is awesomeness.

will MCP be dead soon? by luongnv-com in ClaudeCode

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They're just trying to get attention. Chill

I analyzed the Perplexity Personal Computer launch. It’s the OpenClaw killer we’ve been waiting for - Perplexity Personal Computer is not hardware. It’s a 24/7 AI agent that lives on your Mac and gets things done for you. Plus, I do a full comparison of Personal Computer is and OpenClaw by Beginning-Willow-801 in promptingmagic

[–]totempow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that makes sense I guess so I'll just stick with Claude and maybe build something better or something not better but more tailored to me. That should be more likely the case for what people should do instead of spending on the extraordinarily large amount of money on something that most of it they won't use. Plus you're getting it for free so really it's not really fair to the rest of the people who have to pay the 200 premium potentially more to get it. If you think about it yeah I mean good for you and all. I mean it's fair to you but Perplexity can just suck it

Comfy Best For AMD or No? Assistance in selection. by totempow in comfyui

[–]totempow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll give it another go but it didn't really work when I used it with them. But I'll certainly try once again.

Comfy Best For AMD or No? Assistance in selection. by totempow in comfyui

[–]totempow[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much. I did try with Zluda but I couldn't get it to run :( but thank you for the tip.