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

#82

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redwood wrote: post #81

When will we see a gender neutral name for an assistant app?

I thought a LOT about that. It's much harder than I thought it would be. That said - I think there's scope for having two names for a service. Myer and Myra? :) Just thinking out loud.

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

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hagope wrote: post #83

my problem with this type of app is that all of these capabilities are already handled faster/easier by other native apps without having to type out a full sentence of what I want....ie Google now (esp with voice search), yelp, uber, 4sq etc etc

BTW. Not everything needs to be a full sentence. And using the voice input on your phone, this can take voice input too.

For instance, "happy hour near mission" works as well as "Whats a good happy hour in the mission that has craft beer".

The thing is - would you rather figure the right app, find it on your phone, open it, wait for it to load, do a search, and have it take an action - and then use the next app to take the next one?

Or simply have a layer that does it transparently?

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

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Post by viksit »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #85

Question: it cost about $0.03 per SMS message, right? This seems like a large business overhead compared to web apps. Are there less expensive ways to send 10s of thousands of SMS messages per month? I think this is a very cool idea.

Thank you for the feedback!

Yes, you're right about the sms overhead. The way to mitigate that is to offer this on every platform which supports text that uses a web connection. Hence the focus on fb messenger, whatsapp and others apart from sms.

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Post by varunmittal »

vinitagr wrote: post #58
viksit wrote: post #45

PS, it's interesting that CS224d : Deep Learning for NLP is trending at the same time as Myra. A lot of stuff is common to both - for instance, the topic on Recurrent neural nets for word embedding. There are a bunch of very nice NL related experiments I've tried that are waiting in ipython notebooks, that we would love to experiment with here in production. If anyone here is interested in working on problems that re…

Have you seen luka.ai they have been doing it for quite a while. Doing something very similar.

Myra is great. I am trying to get the app on my iPad. We are at a much early stage right now. What we have is a context understanding system.

http://crrnt.is:8080/?q=god

This query should be able to summarize well. It will be great if we can collabrate on data sharing at some level.

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

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Post by varunmittal »

varunmittal wrote: post #87
vinitagr wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you seen luka.ai they have been doing it for quite a while. Doing something very similar.

Myra is great. I am trying to get the app on my iPad. We are at a much early stage right now. What we have is a context understanding system. http://crrnt.is:8080/?q=god This query should be able to summarize well. It will be great if we can collabrate on data sharing at some level.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064049 for if there is anything you would like to ask or know about what we have done.

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

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Post by viksit »

ahazred8ta wrote: post #89

"THAT HELPS YOU FIND PLACES TO GO OUT TO" Yeah... kindly make that visible UP TOP without having to visit the FAQ. A lot of us use personal assistants to do stuff that doesn't involve venues, dining, retail, or geolocation.

Thanks for the feedback!

What would you like this assistant to do that would be more useful?

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