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Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by viksit »

Thought I'd share what I've been working on for some time. Would love feedback!

It uses Deep learning models for natural language. Happy to answer tech related questions here.

Just a note: It's limited to San Francisco only for now - and it's still in Alpha - there will be kinks!

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by fjaved »

Very cool! I've been wondering why more messaging based assistants based in AI aren't emerging versus human-aided (Magic, Operator, etc.). (I was excited about carla.io but disappointingly it never really worked very well.)

This one is fast but still very natural. The suggested query in the onboarding flow obviously works very well, but I tried to throw it for a loop by asking where I can take a party of 20 for dinner in SF tonight (real problem so if anyone has suggestions would love to hear them!).

The response wasn't tremendously useful, but it was still an intelligible and coherent response (recommended 20 Spot--kind of a smart response actually!).

Asking friends, they've suggested Amici's or Buca Di Beppo so I can imagine the algorithm learning or being taught over time to incorporate characteristics like that (large groups). I like that it's a narrow use case to start--focus on that and build from there. Much more optimistic than the wide and shallow approach of Magic and Operator.

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Post by donall »

viksit wrote: post #5
dumbfounder wrote: post #4

Why is it limited to San Fran right now?

@dumbfounder - it crawls data for its recommendations. In order to maintain quality and make sure it's useful, I've limited its scope for the time being. More locations are coming soon!

FYI, you can use Factual.com to get location data for all kinds of businesses. You'll still need to source reviews from somewhere else, but this might be a useful way of ensuring you have good coverage.

(disclaimer: I work at Factual, but a) I'm commenting as an individual, not representing the company; b) I genuinely think this is a good choice for you; c) for a small app like this, the data will likely be free, so I have no financial motivation!)

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