The author receives unsolicited texts from real estate brokers looking to buy properties in their hometown, including their parents’ undeveloped land. They created a system to control their phone’s SMS application remotely using MQTT. The Python script listens on MQTT for SMS messages and generates responses. They enjoy creating different personalities and backstories for their conversations using Ollama TUI. The author experiments with different prompts and personas, even creating a ‘college bro’ personality for property selling. Surprisingly, a bug in the Python script generated multiple responses to a single text. The author is cautious about selling property they don’t own and reports/block numbers to combat spam.
https://evan.widloski.com/software/sms_llm/