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Bought a few boxes of black knights/hexwraiths. What would I be building and why? usually play AoS but sometimes 8th

A hexwraith horde of awesome... Why? Because the gods demand it.

As a man of fluff I sincerely believe that one should go for the aesthetics he prefers.

Personally I dislike hexwraith models - burning heads and scythes used in combat just don't do it for me, whereas the Black Knights, especially if converted up with a couple nice bits, can look fantastic, but that's just my personal opinion based on the fact, that I want an old school skeleton army led by a wight king and maybe supported by a couple ghosts. Maybe a former Bretonnian lord rising from the dead with his skeletal army or something like that.

I love themed armies. Everyone should have one! The more background you make for your toy soldiers the cooler they get!

Hexwraiths are more durable baseline (4+) and ignore rend bonuses when attacked, have 2 attacks at a 3+ to wound all the time, with -1 rend. They also have that cool move-through attack, and they fly. They don't have any command except a champion, however.

Black Knights have a 5+ save, 4+ against rend -, and have one attack each at +4 to wound, +3 on the turn they charge. They are generally worse overall by stats - but with a standard bearer they get d3 models (2 wound models!) every hero phase, and their musician guarantees a charge of at least 6 inches. This helps keep them around when they are fighting, and get them into combat.

Both can look very cool on the table - I'm partial to a ghosty blue fire color scheme for the Hexwraiths, and a patina'd bronze armor scheme for the Black Knights.

I'd probably use both, one for pure hitting power (Hexwraiths) and another for a larger, more durable unit that grows back as the game goes on (the knights).

If you trim the front of the barding on the black knights, you can build them so they slide off, which means that you can make both unit types.