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Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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I was ready to give you my money, but you're Gmail only, sorry, I migrated out so will wait for IMAP support.

It really hurts my head to even think about how that works. Does google offer some proprietary email api that isn't IMAP? Why would such a thing exist? Why would you make an email app without IMAP?

Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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The pitch could use a bit of work. I had to muster a lot of willpower to read all those paragraphs to figure out what the product even does. It would greatly benefit from more straightforward writing. When I clicked, I hoped that it could manage the tedium of dealing with emails: - Negotiating meeting dates and adding events to my calendar. - Combining pointless corporate emails into an executive summary, or deleting…

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Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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post #8

I was ready to give you my money, but you're Gmail only, sorry, I migrated out so will wait for IMAP support.

It really hurts my head to even think about how that works. Does google offer some proprietary email api that isn't IMAP? Why would such a thing exist? Why would you make an email app without IMAP?

They're outsourcing identity verification to gmail to replace the "email verification flow". This way they don't have to configure any email infra like sendgrid, ses, etc, deal with bounces and so on. It's also possible gmail has better API support to process a lot of email, but I have seen this in products that have nothing to do with email. Just plain we only serve gmail customers. It's likely also another stricter variation of we only serve US customers.

Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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The pitch could use a bit of work. I had to muster a lot of willpower to read all those paragraphs to figure out what the product even does. It would greatly benefit from more straightforward writing. When I clicked, I hoped that it could manage the tedium of dealing with emails: - Negotiating meeting dates and adding events to my calendar. - Combining pointless corporate emails into an executive summary, or deleting…

There's definitely more we want to do here - including prompting you proactively in helpful ways. This is our v1 -- stay tuned for v2 :)

Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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[Co-founder of Shortwave here] I know a lot of folks are launching “AI Assistants” right now – but ours isn’t just a “chat with your PDF” thin shim on GPT4. We’ve got some serious infrastructure behind this. Here are some notes on our architecture: - We use LLMs at multiple places to choose what data to pull at each step. We use an additive approach rather than a chaining approach to avoid error propagation. We use G…

Curious about the “Write in your voice” feature. Is it mostly derived from LLM stylometry, or do you blend statistical approaches like those used by spaCy? Do you capture all of lexical, syntactical, rhetorical, and semantic cues? I’d love to chat about your approach, if you’re open to any opportunities for comparing notes!

Right now we use an LLM to extract a textual description of your writing style from past emails, and then we use that in the prompt.

The nice thing about this is that it's editable, so the user can customize the style to be the style they want, not necessarily exactly the style they have.

We're also investigating doing per-user model training for more refined voice... not launched yet though (and comes with tradeoffs).

Happy to swap notes -- email me: andrew@shortwave.com

Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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I know it's unrealistic, but I wish this were a local appliance I could buy. Maybe plug into Home Assistant too.

Sending all my data off to two external services might be a bridge too far for me... Then again, I don't trust Microsoft or Google either.

Re: Meet your AI Executive Assistant

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post #18

I know it's unrealistic, but I wish this were a local appliance I could buy. Maybe plug into Home Assistant too. Sending all my data off to two external services might be a bridge too far for me... Then again, I don't trust Microsoft or Google either.

How much would you pay for an at home appliance? His responsive would it need to be?
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