Dont know how to do something in your terminal?
howto print my system information?
And you'll be told!
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│ This command works with various Unix-like systems, including Linux and macOS. │
│ If you're running a 64-bit kernel on an Apple M1 or ARM-based hardware, it │
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howto is available on pypi and can be installed in any manner of ways
pip install howto-aipipx install howto-aiuvx --from howto-ai howtoNote: pre 1.0.0 release are assumed to be unstable and might break or do unexpected things, use wisely
λ: howto --help
Usage: howto [OPTIONS] [QUERY]...
╭─ Arguments ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ query [QUERY]... This is what you'd like to ask as a question. Empty │
│ queries will open a prompt. │
│ [default: None] │
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╭─ Options ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ --debug --no-debug Make no requests to llms │
│ [default: no-debug] │
│ --dry-run --no-dry-run Make no requests to llms │
│ [default: no-dry-run] │
│ --config-path --no-config-path Print the default config path │
│ and exit. │
│ [default: no-config-path] │
│ --config-show --no-config-show Print the config and exit. │
│ [default: no-config-show] │
│ --install-completion Install completion for the │
│ current shell. │
│ --show-completion Show completion for the current │
│ shell, to copy it or customize │
│ the installation. │
│ --help Show this message and exit. │
╰────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯howto uses 3rd party services as backends. By default, It's configured to use ollama which is
expected to be running locally (make sure you read their docs). If it is, your howto commands will work.
howto can also be used against popular local, private and public AI APIs including ChatGPT, Gemini and others. To
configure this, you need to edit the config file. Locating the config file can be done with:
howto --config-pathEdit this in your favourite text editor. If this is difficult, please open an Issue and we can help.
Set the model you want by using the --set-model flag or updating the config file
howto --set-model 'gpt-4o'or
model = "gpt-4o-mini"
# or
model = "gpt-4"
# ...then export your OPENAI_API_KEY for that session (in your .envrc or .bashrc or wherever)
export OPENAI_API_KEY="<your key here>" # https://platform.openai.com/api-keysand you should be good to go
Set the model you want by using the --set-model flag or updating the config file
howto --set-model 'huggingface/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct' # https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instructor
model = "huggingface/<hugging_face_model>"
# for example
model = "huggingface/facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill" # https://huggingface.co/facebook/blenderbot-400M-distill
# ...then export your HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY for that session (in your .envrc or .bashrc or wherever)
export HUGGINGFACE_API_KEY="<your key here>" # https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-tokensand you should be good to go
Set the model you want by using the --set-model flag or updating the config file
howto --set-model 'claude-3-opus-latest' # https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/about-claude/modelsor
model = "claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022"
# or
model = "claude-3-5-haiku-latest"
# ...then export your ANTHROPIC_API_KEY for that session (in your .envrc or .bashrc or wherever)
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="<your key here>" # https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/security-tokensand you should be good to go
Remember AI can produce rubbish code, remember to research the commands
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