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

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Post by machbio »

I think the problem with text based apps are that they cannot access our location constantly and I as a user has to take an extra step to inform the AI about my location every-time I need something.. As Myra is only limited to San Francisco, it is suggesting only places in that city.. I do not whether its possible for the message recipient to access our location on facebook..To the Myra Developers, But there is a share location feature on Whatsapp and Facebook that you guys should utilize to access our current location to recommend more location based queries..

As this feature is in Beta, I do not expect it to be perfect - but they could really improve on NLP in the application and understand my queries better, as it goes off-course if two different queries with different words but same meaning are asked..It is amazing, how this system is implemented but, if anyone is trying to build similar product they should try SMSsync[1] by Ushahidi - its still sort of beta product but gets the job done for a feature similar to this..

[1] http://www.ushahidi.com/product/smssync/

EDIT: I was only talking about how to implement the gateway part of the application quickly and not the whole Myra product, apologies for the mistake..

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

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Post by viksit »

fjaved wrote: post #3

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 dinne…

Thank you!

The language models here are still being trained, so there will definitely be things it doesn't understand yet - eg, the fact that "party of 20" should translate into "good for groups". But that's great feedback and glad you liked it!

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

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Post by viksit »

machbio wrote: post #21

I think the problem with text based apps are that they cannot access our location constantly and I as a user has to take an extra step to inform the AI about my location every-time I need something.. As Myra is only limited to San Francisco, it is suggesting only places in that city.. I do not whether its possible for the message recipient to access our location on facebook..To the Myra Developers, But there is a sha…

@machbio - thank you for the feedback! Definitely, not only can you share locations in whatsapp/FB, you can also do so in text messages. We have plans to integrate that soon, especially as the system launches on more cities.

Regarding the natural language - yes, the language models are trained on a dataset that doesn't yet account for all possible ways of expressing intent. As more users such as you interact with the system, it will get better at handling them.

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

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Post by viksit »

_-__--- wrote: post #12
milkmanjr wrote: post #8

The rise of SMS based apps is very real. This one looks cool though. Would love to try it when/if it rolls out to Los Angeles.

is this the return of smarterchild?

Well, only to the point where it can answer your queries. Myra aims to be actually useful ;)

But jokes apart - I think that using apps on the phone is like using bookmarks in 1999. Why do we have single purpose "links" that allow you to a few things, that you need to remember? What is indexing all of these services, and allowing you to get them on demand, just by expressing intent? Almost a search engine - but one that actually gets things done, rather than just displaying information.

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

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Post by viksit »

Raphmedia wrote: post #16
malanj wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really cool work - nice going! Great application of Deep Leaning. I'm really curious about the Whatsapp and Facebook messenger integration, given that they don't seem to have published APIs. How did you do it?

From what I understand, it's not that they are integrated. Those apps allow to send and receive SMS. In doing so, they can simply send the queries via SMS on those apps, allowing to receive the result there. Edit: I was wrong!

To clarify - the system is in fact natively integrated across the SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger protocols. :) It's not using SMS as a way to talk to them.

If you use those, you'll see that the responses are almost instantaneous, compared to the lag which SMS inherently has. There is a general purpose API that can be used via any platform - Slack, Telegram, Gtalk, or email. Anything that supports text.

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

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Post by machbio »

viksit wrote: post #24
machbio wrote: post #21

I think the problem with text based apps are that they cannot access our location constantly and I as a user has to take an extra step to inform the AI about my location every-time I need something.. As Myra is only limited to San Francisco, it is suggesting only places in that city.. I do not whether its possible for the message recipient to access our location on facebook..To the Myra Developers, But there is a sha…

@machbio - thank you for the feedback! Definitely, not only can you share locations in whatsapp/FB, you can also do so in text messages. We have plans to integrate that soon, especially as the system launches on more cities. Regarding the natural language - yes, the language models are trained on a dataset that doesn't yet account for all possible ways of expressing intent. As more users such as you interact with the…

Thank you for the reply.. I understand that for texts you could utilize SMS gateway, is it possible for you to reveal how you programmatically access WhatsApp and Facebook Messages..

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

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Post by okal »

machbio wrote: post #21

I think the problem with text based apps are that they cannot access our location constantly and I as a user has to take an extra step to inform the AI about my location every-time I need something.. As Myra is only limited to San Francisco, it is suggesting only places in that city.. I do not whether its possible for the message recipient to access our location on facebook..To the Myra Developers, But there is a sha…

We had an SMSSync integration when I worked at FrontlineSMS[1]. It's a gateway, period. Any smarts have to be built into whatever server it interacts with. It has little in common with Myra.

[1] http://www.frontlinesms.com

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

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Post by philipjoubert »

viksit wrote: post #26
Raphmedia wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From what I understand, it's not that they are integrated. Those apps allow to send and receive SMS. In doing so, they can simply send the queries via SMS on those apps, allowing to receive the result there. Edit: I was wrong!

To clarify - the system is in fact natively integrated across the SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger protocols. :) It's not using SMS as a way to talk to them. If you use those, you'll see that the responses are almost instantaneous, compared to the lag which SMS inherently has. There is a general purpose API that can be used via any platform - Slack, Telegram, Gtalk, or email. Anything that supports text.

Thanks for clarification. I have used Whatsapp and it worked great until 08:30 PT when it suddenly stopped working.

When you say "natively integrated" what do you mean? As far as I can tell there are no APIs for either Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.

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