Creating a little “AI assistant” /u/JayBC_ Python Education

To start this post off, I would like to mention I am a complete beginner to coding as a whole and the only programming language I have “learned” is python. I say learned lightly as I have learned loops, functions, classes although I haven’t put those into practice quite yet, lists and dictionaries, and pretty much any of the very basics.

So I am wanting to create a little “AI” assistant kind of thing just as a hobby project. I’m hesitant to call what I want to make an AI but basically I want to make something that will eventually be able listen to voice commands and perform basic tasks based off of the voice input.

What I really want to do is more complicated. I want to create a little pixel art character that sits on the bottom right of the screen to go along with the AI. It’s theme is going to be about a book series I am reading where the characters can advance in rank. To integrate that into the project, I plan on making a todo list or something, and every task I manage to complete is “experience” added to the little character. Once it reaches a max progression state, the character is stored elsewhere (Haven’t figured out what I want to do with that yet) and a new character with a randomized appearance is created. Then the cycle would continue over and over.

It might seem like an ambitious project but I don’t plan on this taking a week or two. I know it will take me much longer with how much there is to learn and how much time I have available. This project isn’t to just make something I find cool although that is a major part of it… But I plan on chunking it out into much more manageable pieces so that I can still feel accomplished after completing a task.

I’m making this post because I want all the advice I could possibly get on any subject you might think is relevant. For example, right now I’m struggling to figure out how I would go about displaying the little character on the bottom right of my screen without impeding any actions I want to take on my desktop. Right now my plan is to learn PyQT5 so that I can make a new window/gui with a transparent background that my character will sit within. I have no idea if PyQT5 is a good resource for this and I haven’t started the learning process but that’s my focus for now. Like I said, I will take all the advice I can get. If you want to direct me to a resource that I can learn from that would be awesome too. Anything helps!

To start this post off, I would like to mention I am a complete beginner to coding as a whole and the only programming language I have “learned” is python. I say learned lightly as I have learned loops, functions, classes although I haven’t put those into practice quite yet, lists and dictionaries, and pretty much any of the very basics.

So I am wanting to create a little “AI” assistant kind of thing just as a hobby project. I’m hesitant to call what I want to make an AI but basically I want to make something that will eventually be able listen to voice commands and perform basic tasks based off of the voice input.

What I really want to do is more complicated. I want to create a little pixel art character that sits on the bottom right of the screen to go along with the AI. It’s theme is going to be about a book series I am reading where the characters can advance in rank. To integrate that into the project, I plan on making a todo list or something, and every task I manage to complete is “experience” added to the little character. Once it reaches a max progression state, the character is stored elsewhere (Haven’t figured out what I want to do with that yet) and a new character with a randomized appearance is created. Then the cycle would continue over and over.

It might seem like an ambitious project but I don’t plan on this taking a week or two. I know it will take me much longer with how much there is to learn and how much time I have available. This project isn’t to just make something I find cool although that is a major part of it… But I plan on chunking it out into much more manageable pieces so that I can still feel accomplished after completing a task.

I’m making this post because I want all the advice I could possibly get on any subject you might think is relevant. For example, right now I’m struggling to figure out how I would go about displaying the little character on the bottom right of my screen without impeding any actions I want to take on my desktop. Right now my plan is to learn PyQT5 so that I can make a new window/gui with a transparent background that my character will sit within. I have no idea if PyQT5 is a good resource for this and I haven’t started the learning process but that’s my focus for now. Like I said, I will take all the advice I can get. If you want to direct me to a resource that I can learn from that would be awesome too. Anything helps!