My girlfriend won't appreciate another invisible girl I talk to at home.
HN has never really struck me as a great place to solicit relationship advice. Not really the focus of the community.
Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
We don't play a fool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlAqhulJmw&t=1s
Thank you for the video! My 5 cents: Please make the small x (close button) to something else, like swipe to up to close the dialog. Small x is not good gui for mobile phone apps.
Thank you for the feedback. We'll definitely surprise you!
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#63I'm not sure if this was intentional, but the name Eliza in the demo text reminded me of the hours I spent playing with the ELIZA bot as a kid.
It is ;)
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
And Cortana was named after a female video game character.
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#65I love the design for this. Excellent! As a side note, I'm curious to how/why you named it Audrey. I think it's very interesting that these 'personal assistants' have traditionally feminine names. P.S. At the bottom, "Here's are some" is not grammatically correct.
I've heard more than a few women complain that all the bots in the "service" area tend to get female names.
At least one blogger preferred Googles assistant because she was ordering around an impersonal un-gendered corporation rather than what felt like an individual.
That said, this does seem like a great opportunity for Ask to bring Jeeves back.
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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.
At the very least, one of them is obviously a headshot found from somewhere else. In general for a new service, I'd rather see no testimonials than testimonials of questionable authenticity.
Agree. They should have known their technical audience would pick up on this.
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#68On a slightly related note, I, personally, noticed that I don't want to get things done. Most of the things, at least. After working GTD style I feel happier and more productive, but usually not closer to my goals. I found, that failing do to most of the things is bearable, as long as I'm keep doing things that matter. I'm still using GTD stuff, but just to "better forget", to unload working memory.
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Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
#69On a slightly related note, I, personally, noticed that I don't want to get things done. Most of the things, at least. After working GTD style I feel happier and more productive, but usually not closer to my goals. I found, that failing do to most of the things is bearable, as long as I'm keep doing things that matter. I'm still using GTD stuff, but just to "better forget", to unload working memory.
> After working GTD style I feel happier and more productive, but usually not closer to my goals.
Were you doing the different reviews to make sure the direction you are headed is bringing you closer to your goals? Working towards your goals is a pretty key part of the system.
For me, the biggest thing I took away from that book was the 2-minute rule. If I see something that needs to be taken care of and it will only take a few minutes to do, just do it. That made a big difference to me because I'm the kind of person that will see a burned out light bulb and then make a mental note to replace the bulb when really I should just do it.
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#70Why 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.
They voices are male in some other countries. In the UK, for example, Siri is voiced by Jon Briggs.