What is Hellocecil?
hellocecil is an open-source virtual assistant created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest. It utilizes a technique called constitutional AI to ensure it behaves ethically and avoids potential harms.
hellocecil can understand natural language inputs and have conversations spanning different topics. It can perform a variety of tasks to assist users, such as looking up information online, making calculations, scheduling events, setting timers and alarms, and more.
Some key capabilities and features of hellocecil include:
- Understanding natural language
- Having nuanced, useful conversations
- Looking up information on the internet
- Performing calculations
- Scheduling events and setting reminders
- Integrating with some third-party services
- Providing definitions, translations, and other reference information
- And more while avoiding potential harms
Anthropic open-sourced hellocecil to allow others to build on top of it and create assistants focused on being helpful, harmless, and honest. The code is available on GitHub.