HuggingChat Fallback Skill

When in doubt, ask HuggingChat, powered by HuggingChat Solver.

You need to configure an email and password for your Hugging Face account.

About

Capabilities:

• Remembers what user said earlier in the conversation
• Can augment the answer with web content
• Trained to decline inappropriate requests

Limitations:

• May occasionally generate incorrect information
• May occasionally produce harmful instructions or biased content

Configuration

Under skill settings (.config/mycroft/skills/skill-ovos-fallback-hugchat.femelo/settings.json) you can tweak some parameters for HuggingChat.

Option	Value	Description
email	your-hf-email	Your email to access Hugging Face
password	your-hf-password	Your password to access Hugging Face
persona	You are a helpful assistant who gives very short but factual answers	Give a personality to HuggingChat
model	llama-3	LLM model to use
enable_memory	true	Remember the last generated outputs (not implemented yet)
memory_size	15	How many interactions to keep
web_search	false	Allow assistant to search the web
name	AI assistant	Name to give to the AI assistant
confirmation	true	Spoken confirmation

Read more about it in the OVOS technical manual, page persona server

The default persona is You are a helpful voice assistant with a friendly tone and fun sense of humor. You respond in 40 words or fewer

Configurations

The skill utilizes the ~/.config/mycroft/skills/skill-ovos-fallback-hugchat.femelo/settings.json file which allows you to configure it.

Configuration for use with HuggingChat

{
  "email": "{your-hf-email}",
  "password": "{your-hf-password}",
  "model": "llama-3",
  "persona": "You are a helpful voice assistant with a friendly tone and fun sense of humor",
  "enable_memory": true,
  "memory_size": 15,
  "web_search": false,
  "__mycroft_skill_firstrun": false
}

Examples

• "Explain quantum computing in simple terms"
• "Got any creative ideas for a 10 year old’s birthday?"