A tutorial to set up a local, open-source virtual assistant and a code assist feature similar to Copilot using Ollama, Llama3, Continue, and Open WebUI.
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI designed to operate entirely offline, supporting various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI APIs. This document highlights its key features, such as effortless setup, Ollama/OpenAI API integration, pipelines support, responsive design, progressive web app for mobile devices, full Markdown and LaTeX support, voice/video call support, model builder, native Python function calling tool, RAG integration, web search for RAG, web browsing capability, image generation integration, many models conversations, role-based access control, multilingual support, continuous updates, and more.
