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Ada Virtual Assistant

Developer Juan Yaguaro (silverhacker) has released Ada, a lightweight desktop virtual assistant written in pure C++ that avoids heavy frameworks like Electron or Node.js. Built on SDL2 with cURL for online AI and llama.cpp for a CPU-only offline mode, the project is available on GitHub and is seeking community feedback.

by read1 min views1 publishedNov 15, 2026

Hi, everyone :)! I'm Juan Yaguaro (aka silverhacker), the creator of Ada. I've been developing this project for a few months now. It's an important project to me because it's a lightweight desktop virtual assistant developed in C++, without heavy frameworks like Electron or Node.js :), just pure C++.

Ada's goal is to be "what Cortana or other assistants never were" :).

I've been building it with SDL2, cURL for the online AI, and llama.cpp for the offline mode (CPU-only for now because I don't have a dedicated GPU, XD).

If you want to know more about my project, check out my GitHub repository here: https://github.com/Silver148/Ada-Virtual-Assistant I'd love any feedback :D!

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