Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p
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I'm in 9th grade, and I built Atticus.Atticus is an incredibly fast and cheap Mac assistant that can do tasks for you.
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You hold down Control-Option-Space, speak or type your task, be it complex or a simple browser search, and Atticus will get on it.The interesting part is that simple tasks, like opening apps, playing a Spotify playlist, or web queries, don't touch AI, and instead are processed locally and typically finish in under a second.
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For example, prompting Atticus to open apps takes around 0.08 seconds, sometimes even finishing before you finish your sentence, sort of like Jev.Any tasks that are more complicated will be sent to Claude via claude -p, meaning you never need an API key and Atticus will run on your existing Claude Pro or Max plan.
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By using this approach, costs are also cut down immensely, with, on average, tasks costing a fraction of a cent.To achieve Atticus' speed, it remembers shortcuts from each task it completes.
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