Personal AI Clone (Week 1)

Digital twin chatbot with document context + OpenAI tool calling + Gradio + Pushover.

Week 1 patterns: load local files into a system prompt, function tools, Gradio chat UI.

What it does

• Answers from files you place in me/ (PDF, DOCX) and optional URLs in me/links.txt
• Tools: record_user_details, record_unknown_question (Pushover when configured)
• Gradio UI (app.py) and walkthrough notebook (personal_ai_clone.ipynb)

Knowledge files (not in this PR)

Large resume/brain binaries are kept out of the course repo (Ed’s size guidance).

Add your own docs under me/, or download sample files from the full project:

https://github.com/Sama-ndari/personal-ai-clone

Expected layout:

me/
  resume.pdf          # optional — your CV
  AI-CLONE-BRAIN.docx # optional — Q&A / biography
  links.txt           # optional — URLs to scrape
  summary.md          # tiny demo context (included)

Setup

Use the course uv environment from the repo root (preferred). Then:

cd 1_foundations/community_contributions/Sama-ndari_me-in-the-loop

Create .env (do not commit):

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_key
PUSHOVER_USER=optional
PUSHOVER_TOKEN=optional

Run

python app.py

Or open personal_ai_clone.ipynb and run the cells.

Full project: https://github.com/Sama-ndari/personal-ai-clone

Author

Sama-ndari — https://www.samandari.dev