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Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Sounds interesting. I'll report on my results here once I have uploaded my otherwise end to end encrypted private and personal conversations into this unknown script...

It gets better. Soon it will imitate you without you uploading your conversations, because enough people around you did it (making themselves guilty of private conversation disclosure, at least 6 months emprisonment in France).

It’s not that privacy is an endless pursuit, it’s more that the governments enjoy it so much that they don’t really work on preventing it.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Better be careful with that... From "Bicycle Repairman", by Bruce Sterling (1996) (This is a spoiler, BTW!): "The mook speaks just like the Senator did, or the way the Senator used to speak, when he was in private and off the record. The way he spoke in his diaries. As far as we can tell, the mook was his diary.... It used to be his personal laptop computer. But he just kept transferring the files, and upgrading the…

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Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Better be careful with that... From "Bicycle Repairman", by Bruce Sterling (1996) (This is a spoiler, BTW!): "The mook speaks just like the Senator did, or the way the Senator used to speak, when he was in private and off the record. The way he spoke in his diaries. As far as we can tell, the mook was his diary.... It used to be his personal laptop computer. But he just kept transferring the files, and upgrading the…

I mean, off topic, but it's not like any (citation needed) of the ideas in Black Mirror are original; it repackages existing ideas and tropes in a modern context. It does an excellent job of that, but it's a bit disingenuous to use it as the golden standard for whacky scifi prophecies.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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I wonder if one could create clones of every user on a site such as hackernews for instance, and create bots for each one, such that when you feed in a random article, comments are automatically generated and replies to comments appear recursively. Comments as a Service.

Poor bastard who stumbles into such a forum never realizing everyone is a bot.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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I'm getting this error when I try to run it: Traceback (most recent call last): File "clean_whatsapp_chats.py", line 39, in all_text[-1] += line IndexError: list index out of range

You're supposed to change the name globals as mentioned in the README.md file.

Then you also need to create a `res` directory in the root directory and install the necessary dependencies. Then you also need to change the encoding when you load the serialized data in the preprocessing notebook.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Better be careful with that... From "Bicycle Repairman", by Bruce Sterling (1996) (This is a spoiler, BTW!): "The mook speaks just like the Senator did, or the way the Senator used to speak, when he was in private and off the record. The way he spoke in his diaries. As far as we can tell, the mook was his diary.... It used to be his personal laptop computer. But he just kept transferring the files, and upgrading the…

I mean, off topic, but it's not like any (citation needed) of the ideas in Black Mirror are original; it repackages existing ideas and tropes in a modern context. It does an excellent job of that, but it's a bit disingenuous to use it as the golden standard for whacky scifi prophecies.

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Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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I wonder if one could create clones of every user on a site such as hackernews for instance, and create bots for each one, such that when you feed in a random article, comments are automatically generated and replies to comments appear recursively. Comments as a Service. Poor bastard who stumbles into such a forum never realizing everyone is a bot.

I could probably write one of those with just 'if' statements.

if "facebook" in $Title: print ( "I deleted my facebook years ago and it was the best thing I ever did")

if "uber" in $Title: print("Uber has only $dollars left of runway. They only have $months left before they'll need another rescue")

if "I made" in $Title: print("Why would I use $new_app when I could just use $old_app_from_90s? I really don't like the trend of using $technology instead of $older_technology. I hope $technology dies a cold death at the bottom of a ditch")

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