I wonder with OpenAI will do with the transcripts of the chats with your girlfriend after they've been shared with them...
Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
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Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#82Doesn't work for Armenian.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#83I’m sure she is a lovely person, but I don’t really have a need to text your girlfriend.
Shades of "this guy's wife" from 8 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5c79n0/you_can_h...
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#84This is nice, but what I'd really like is native integration with tools such as WhatsApp. Sadly, being closed source we can't help with this.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#85Doesn't seem to work for Bahasa Indonesia, #10 most spoken language in the world[1]. What a shame!
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#86wow fancy guy with a girlfriend
"we don't believe you, post a pic of her holding a sign saying Hi HN".
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
If a European language gained a new everyday word in the last fifty years, there’s a solid chance that it’s a loan word from English. A little odd to learn a “foreign” language filled with that stuff.
> European It's not restricted to European languages. 贝果 is bagel, just sounded out phonetically, and 三明治 is sandwich. Idk if there's anything super odd about it. Of course, English is the worst offender of loan words. As someone else said somewhere, "[English doesn't] just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary…
Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And the suggestion of "Jeg vil gerne handle i morgen" for "Jeg vil gerne go shopping i morgen", instead reads to me as "I would like to act tomorrow". A more idiomatic translation would be "Jeg vil gerne købe ind i morgen". It's a little better, but I would never expect anyone to translate "shopping" to "købe ind". "købe ind" is about getting groceries for the week, shopping is about walking the strip and dreaming…
In British english at least, 'going shopping' is a normal way to say 'getting groceries for the week'.
In US english (at least as I speak/understand it) "shopping" is any act of browsing/looking at/selecting something for purchase. It can be groceries, clothes, a car, anything really and it can be online or in person at a store.
"I'm going shopping" with no other specifics would normally mean "for groceries" or other general household supplies, though.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#89> because I don't know a word
You haven't used a dictionary (app)? Put the word you want in, then use one of the options in your Danish sentence and continue.
Re: Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language
#90First, I applaud you building something and encourage it. Next, I want to say I don’t understand these llm “apps”. I tried this in ChatGPT with the minimal prompt (that you can keyboard shortcut) “fill in curly” and it gave me exactly the correct full sentence plus even better alternatives. Why would I use a separate app? In general why would I use any of these separate apps vs my included ChatGPT that I’ll have a bu…
I imagine once this app becomes more mature, it'll have more options and functionality around its specific use-case, and tailored UX.
ChatGPT just has a text input and output. They can't build ChatGPT to have the perfect UX for every single eventuality. TLDR - UX, convenience, and ease of use.