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Alpaca: an ollama client to easily interact with an LLM locally or remotely (flathub.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is what I needed. I will run this locally and run ollama in a VM.

Although podman and Distrobox look tempting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Looks nice! Is this yours (OP)? If so, are you aware of Bavarder? It seems to have quite some features. (But it is unmaintained and broken right now so Alpaca is a welcome replacement.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Nope, I'm not the developer, I just found it really interesting and decided to share

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it better than Ollama and if so how?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's a frontend for ollama. so no, because under the hood it is ollama.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

thanks for the clarification, so arguably then it's a better interface for user who are not familiar with the CLI

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I absolutely hate people naming their program with a word that existed before. At least call it Allpaca ffs. How should I search for errors or stuff in general?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The horrors of typing in your prospective project name in a search engine

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Could have named it AIpaca.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wait until someone screams 'AI will help'.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

*Ollpaca

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

Alpaca harrasses me help

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

especially considering KDE already has an application with almost exactly the same name for the same purpose https://invent.kde.org/utilities/alpaka