Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name?
Is it really that hard to come up with a name?
Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
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#52Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name? Is it really that hard to come up with a name?
Bixby, Siri, Cortana and "OK Google" are women's names? The only one with a woman's name that I can think of is Alexa. Granted they all have a woman's voice, but doesnt seem like that was your point.
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#53Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name? Is it really that hard to come up with a name?
A vast majority of personal assistants are female, that could be part of the reason
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't want to get things done Exactly. This is a really, really difficult and essential observation to make. Humans are built to procrastinate because it conserves energy. Do an experiment: Sit down and start doing what you are supposed to do. If you're not able to work or start, don't find excuses. Don't go looking for physical reasons like "Hungry", "Cold", "Tired". Don't procrastinate. Don't walk around. Don't…
I find that the problem is often the context switching. To get things done, I often have to take a step back and make a list of things that need to get done. This is the top-down brainstorming, that gets me more in the mood. I can do this when I'm not working, to get me thinking about the problem. Then when the time comes for working, you choose the easiest or shortest task and start on it. The "McDonalds theory" as…
Yes, I do that as well. Start somewhere and work yourself into the mood.
I keep the larger issue in mind though, to not spend too much time on improving "alibi"-subprojects.
Regarding the "McDonalds theory": I call that "Don't mix production and criticism of your work." Either produce something or improve on you've already done. Otherwise these two modes of operation interfere with each other.
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#55Mhm. So yet another Siri. Apparently "Vernax" is behind it: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vernax#/entity Website is down: http://www.vernax.com/ They really need a native English speaker to clean up the text on the homepage though. Lot's of sub-optimal phrasing.
Personal assistant bot, Yes. Another useless chatbot, big NO. Nice and clean app, good luck.
Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
#56Is this another cloud based assistant or one I can install and run locally?
Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
#57Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name? Is it really that hard to come up with a name?
Bixby, Siri, Cortana and "OK Google" are women's names? The only one with a woman's name that I can think of is Alexa. Granted they all have a woman's voice, but doesnt seem like that was your point.
in fairness, "Cortana" and "Siri" both sound pretty effeminate to me (and speakers of romance languages)
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#58Why does every assistant has to have a woman's name? Is it really that hard to come up with a name?
Bixby, Siri, Cortana and "OK Google" are women's names? The only one with a woman's name that I can think of is Alexa. Granted they all have a woman's voice, but doesnt seem like that was your point.
Siri is absolutely a fairly common Nordic woman's name, I know several people with that name.
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#59My girlfriend won't appreciate another invisible girl I talk to at home.
Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
#60I hope this is helpful feedback: * There are several small typos on the page ("How does it works?") that distract from its content. * The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice. * What appears to set "Audrey" aside from, say, Alexa is the promise that you can take a moment to train the AI when it misunderstands you. That's a great feature; I can tell Alexa that she was wrong (via the app), but t…
The testimonials strike me as all having the same writer's voice. Someone needs to come up with a service that generates authentic-sounding testimonials, complete with convincing headshots.
Convincingly human headshots that aren't just misappropriated likenesses of a real person? Sounds like an ML master's thesis to me!