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threetonesunyesterday at 8:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Kagi's Assistant is the most useful tool I've found as far as searching goes, and occasionally simple codegen. Let's you use a wide variety of models and isn't tracking me.


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Imustaskforhelpyesterday at 8:32 PM

If we are talking about complete privacy. I am trying out https://confer.to (created by signal team) too and I am unable to run it on my mac (passkey support)(I tried it both in zen & orion) but I tried it on an android chrome (tablet) and I am kinda more optimistic about it too

I have heard good things about Kagi in fact, that's the reason why I tried orion and still have it in the first place but I haven't bought Kagi, I just used the free searches orion gives & I don't know if it has Kagi's assistant.

I think proton's Lumo is another good bet.

If you want something to not track you, I once asked cerebras team on their discord if they track the queries and responses from their website try now feature and they said that they don't. I don't really see a reason why they might lie about it given that its only meant for very basic purposes & they don't train models or anything.

You also get one of the fastest inferences for models including GLM 4.7 (which z.ai uses)

You might not get search results though but for search related queries duck.ai's pretty good and you can always mix and match.

But Cerebras recently got a 10 billion $ investment from OpenAI and I Have been critical of them from now on so do be wary now.

Kagi Assistant does seem to be good if someone already uses Kagi or has a subscription of it from what I feel like.