I don't care about replay attacks. What should I do with the nonce in nacl? My system forwards encrypted and/or signed messages on a gossip network. Replay is part of the design. What should I do with the nonce? I'm tempted to just set it to the same number always. Is this a bad idea?
Nonces must be unique but are not secret. Typically you send it alongside the ciphertext as a prefix. Note that with the asymmetric box, you must not use a nonce that you used in one direction in the opposite direction, since both directions use the same shared symmetric key.

Reusing a nonce is a fatal mistake. It completely breaks the MAC and it leaks the xor of the two plaintexts. This leak is quite severe, if for example both texts are natural language this allows recovery of most words of the messages.

Using a counter or a random value of at least 128 bits are common approaches to generate nonces.