Dev builds Arcon: a local AI assistant on Qwen3-4B with memory, mood and tools
Feathered-Beast · reddit · 2026-09-03
Reddit user Feathered-Beast open-sourced Arcon, a local AI assistant built around Qwen3-4B with LoRA fine-tuning.
Instead of a plain chatbot, the project experiments with:
- Persistent memory across sessions
- Personality, mood and internal state simulation
- Tool use and processing input before replying
The author asks the local-agent community how far a small model can realistically be pushed with good surrounding architecture. The full project is on GitHub for review and critique — a concrete data point for the "small model + good architecture" approach.
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