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HERMES AGENT just hit 100k GitHub stars (Tutorial)
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HERMES AGENT just hit 100k GitHub stars (Tutorial)

Introduction to Hermes Agent

Overview of Hermes Agent

  • Hermes agent has achieved a milestone as the fastest project in GitHub history to reach 100,000 stars.
  • It operates on personal devices as an AI that learns user preferences and behaviors.
  • Users are jailbreaking apps using Hermes agent, indicating its versatility and power.
  • The speaker promises a tutorial on installing Hermes on a server for continuous operation.

Key Features of Hermes

Improvements Over OpenClaw

  • Dubbie, the speaker, highlights three major improvements of Hermes over OpenClaw:
  • Memory management: Unlike OpenClaw, which required repetitive teaching, Hermes autonomously writes memory after successful tasks.
  • Stability: OpenClaw frequently crashed; Dubbie reports no restarts needed with Hermes in over a month.
  • Token efficiency: Users can track costs better with visibility into token usage, reducing expenses significantly.

Practical Use Cases of Hermes

Daily Tasks Automation

  • Examples include:
  • A daily news briefing that summarizes top AI stories each morning at 9 AM.
  • Gmail management that filters junk emails and provides important updates, saving users significant time daily.
  • Recipe suggestions based on pantry inventory and fitness goals.

Advanced Capabilities of Hermes

Self-Fixing Mechanism

  • An impressive feature where Hermes rewrote its own code to overcome bugs during tasks without human intervention.

Setting Up Your Own Server for Hermes

Installation Steps

  • Instructions begin with selecting Hostinger's KVM2 plan for easy VPS setup with sufficient resources (2 vCPU cores, 8GB RAM).
  • Emphasis on copying the admin password post-deployment for access control.

Configuring Models and Messaging Options

Model Selection

  • Users can choose from various models like Anthropic or Codeex based on their needs and budget considerations.
  • Caution is advised when setting up messaging options; Telegram is recommended for mobile communication with the agent.

Finalizing Setup and Testing Functionality

User ID Security Measures

  • Importance of adding user IDs to prevent unauthorized access to the bot; instructions provided for retrieving user IDs via Telegram bots.

Interacting with Your New AI Assistant

Command Usage

  • After setup completion, users can explore commands available within the system by typing specific prompts like "hello world."

Starting Communication with the Agent

Gateway Activation

  • The necessity of starting the gateway to enable interaction between users and their agents through messaging platforms like Telegram.

Automating Daily News Briefings

Creating Recurring Jobs

  • Users are encouraged to automate routine tasks by setting up recurring jobs such as daily news summaries delivered at specified times.

Advanced Browser Harness Installation

Enhancing Functionalities

  • For advanced capabilities like web scraping or task automation beyond reading content online, additional installations are necessary.

Historical Context of AI Development

Reference to Early NLP Work

  • Mention of Joseph Wesenbomb’s chatbot therapist project at MIT in the '60 s , illustrating historical advancements in natural language processing compared to current capabilities.

Conclusion & Call-to-action

Encouragement for Engagement

  • Viewers are urged to install Hermes and join community discussions about building applications atop this technology.
Video description

Hermes Agent: https://hostinger.com/dubibubii10 Use Code: DUBIBUBBII Hermes Agent is a rapidly growing artificial intelligence personal AI that learns user behavior and can even jailbreak apps. This video shows you how to install Hermes on your own home server, set up an automated job, and plug in a powerful skill. We'll explore the future technology of AI agents and how this tool fits into the vibe coding ethos.