Someone should tell them that using actual names for a digital assistant is a terrible idea. At least they should use a name that's not so common. And easier to pronounce!
Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
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#72On 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.
I have a similar mindset, and see it manifest as always being incredibly motivated/excited to tackle the first 90% of a problem, and then falling behind in the last 10% because I don't want to be done, or I get bored of the nitty gritty bugs, or whatever.
To combat this, I always shoot a lot higher so that 90% is a lot more than what 100% would have been of the original. My GitHub issues are _always_ filled with todos and future projects because it makes me feel like I'm building towards something great, instead of just finishing up a project that I'll be done with and not work on again.
It's a mindset that's worked really well for me so far.
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#73I 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.
Little Shop of Horrors reference, as this is something otherwise not quite talkative suddenly getting chatty?
Wonder if there's some interaction that causes a "Feed me, Seymour" response.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
It'd probably be easier to hire a bunch of models, cheaper too! :P
Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
#75I 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.
> Women have been made into servants once again. Except this time, they’re digital.
https://qz.com/911681/we-tested-apples-siri-amazon-echos-ale...
Another quote to think about (warning: explicit sexual language):
> "The fact that Apple writers selected “I’d blush if I could” as Siri’s response to any verbal sexual harassment quite literally flirts with abuse. Coy, evasive responses like Alexa’s “Let’s change the topic” in response to “You are a slut” or Cortana’s “I don’t think I can help you with that” in response to “Suck my dick” reinforce stereotypes of unassertive, subservient women in service positions. We should also not overlook the puny jokes that Cortana and Google Home occasionally employed. These actions intensify rape culture by presenting indirect ambiguity as a valid response to harassment."
Re: Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
#76I don't typically use assistants and voice based interfaces beyond "Alexa, what's the weather" which is arguably not that impressive.
However... I welcome 3rd party, independent applications of this type, because I find it dull that all the existing solutions from big companies are just trying to upsell their own services by forcing you to have an account with them, listen to their music or shop from their shop... Some independent thinking is due in this space.
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#77Nothing against this application personally, but I still do not understand the appeal of "personal assistants." If I want the weather, I click my weather app icon and see it instantly. If I want an Uber, I click Uber and request one instantly.
I don't see the benefit of adding another layer between me and my desired action. This is especially the case when the smart personal assistant doesn't understand my request, in which case I'll usually just abandon the whole thing. Only took a few times trying to get Siri to do something and I haven't used it for anything besides timers in years.
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#78Although I welcome them, the problem with all these AI products is the there's little promise of zero-knowledge (or whatever you wanna call it) privacy/security. Until then, I don't see myself feeding a company my information, at least not for free.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN has never really struck me as a great place to solicit relationship advice. Not really the focus of the community.
I am profoundly saddened to hear you don't get jokes. Funny guy.
Oh, I get it. I just don't want it. Because it's not funny. That's why I made fun of it. If you'd made a good joke, I'd be laughing with you. But you made a bad one, so I'm laughing at you. I didn't put a lot of effort into doing it, though. Next time I'll do more to make it clear.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Convincingly human headshots that aren't just misappropriated likenesses of a real person? Sounds like an ML master's thesis to me!
It'd probably be easier to hire a bunch of models, cheaper too! :P
No no, the point is that they're supposed to look convincing, not like models!