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Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by spandan-madan » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 7:42 AM UTC

matte_black wrote: post #26

I wonder if one could create clones of every user on a site such as hackernews for instance, and create bots for each one, such that when you feed in a random article, comments are automatically generated and replies to comments appear recursively. Comments as a Service. Poor bastard who stumbles into such a forum never realizing everyone is a bot.

I think people have done something similar with reddit actually. They tried to make redit conversations, and well as expected they were pretty funny. Try google searching ou might be able to find it.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by NetOpWibby » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 7:58 AM UTC

knolax wrote: post #39

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is literally a Black Mirror episode - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back Synopsis: "The episode tells the story of Martha (Hayley Atwell), a young woman whose boyfriend Ash Starmer (Domhnall Gleeson) is killed in a car accident. As she mourns him, she discovers that technology now allows her to communicate with an artificial intelligence imitating Ash, and reluctantly decides to try it. "Be Right Back"…

I understand the value of providing hypothetical situations, but the constant mention of Black Mirror episodes with very little other substance here is getting tiring. Without having seen Black Mirror, that synopsis doesn't add much to the conversation other than "somebody made a tvshow/movie about that". Other than the fact that a similar situation was explored, what new conclusion did the episode reach that warrant…

Mainly that it was creepy and the widower realized she didn’t really want a dead boyfriend/android thing.

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by otalp » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 8:17 AM UTC

spandan-madan wrote: post #41

matte_black wrote: post #26

I wonder if one could create clones of every user on a site such as hackernews for instance, and create bots for each one, such that when you feed in a random article, comments are automatically generated and replies to comments appear recursively. Comments as a Service. Poor bastard who stumbles into such a forum never realizing everyone is a bot.

I think people have done something similar with reddit actually. They tried to make redit conversations, and well as expected they were pretty funny. Try google searching ou might be able to find it.

https://reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator

Re: Show HN: A tool to make a bot that speaks like you, learning from WhatsApp chats

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Post by palashkulsh » Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 9:47 AM UTC

avgDev wrote: post #23

It would be nice to create a bot that would learn how I write my shitty code to be able to write code for me when I retire and eventually die. Only to be resurrected in JavaScript. :')

that could be made recursive ;)