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Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

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Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#21

Just tried, its impressive but needs work - trying to book an appointment out in 3 weeks, it acked that but could not confirm exact date time. Still impressed.

Thanks!! see you then

If it does not work, try this link:https://calendly.com/retell-ai/retell-ai-user?month=2024-02

Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#22
This is incredible and terrifying at the same time. Does it support long context? As in, can I voice chat with an instance of an agent, and then later in a different chat refer to items discussed in the previous chat? Can I also type / text with the agent and have it recall items from a previous session?

Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#23

This is incredible and terrifying at the same time. Does it support long context? As in, can I voice chat with an instance of an agent, and then later in a different chat refer to items discussed in the previous chat? Can I also type / text with the agent and have it recall items from a previous session?

That's an interesting point! We did consider adding memory to the voice agent, and we have use cases like an AI therapy session wanting to know the former conversation with the patient. Adding the previous chat would be very helpful as well.

Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#25
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I was skeptical but the demo is incredible ( https://beta.retellai.com/home-agent )

Wow, I agree! That was beyond expectations. The only let-down was the AI contradicted itself when I tried layering on conditionals. It was something like this:

"What time works"

"Morning on tuesday would be best, but I can also do afternoon"

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch what time in the afternoon you wanted"

"No, I said the morning"

"I'm having a hard time hearing you. What time in the morning did you want?"

"10am"

And from there things were fine. It seemed very rigid on picking a time and didn't suggest times when I laid out a range.

Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#27
post #8

I was skeptical but the demo is incredible ( https://beta.retellai.com/home-agent )

Wow, I agree! That was beyond expectations. The only let-down was the AI contradicted itself when I tried layering on conditionals. It was something like this: "What time works" "Morning on tuesday would be best, but I can also do afternoon" "I'm sorry, I didn't catch what time in the afternoon you wanted" "No, I said the morning" "I'm having a hard time hearing you. What time in the morning did you want?" "10am" And…

Great point! Theres's some room for the prompt to improve~

Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#28

This is incredible and terrifying at the same time. Does it support long context? As in, can I voice chat with an instance of an agent, and then later in a different chat refer to items discussed in the previous chat? Can I also type / text with the agent and have it recall items from a previous session?

That's an interesting point! We did consider adding memory to the voice agent, and we have use cases like an AI therapy session wanting to know the former conversation with the patient. Adding the previous chat would be very helpful as well.

> an AI therapy session

oh no

Re: Launch HN: Retell AI (YC W24) – Conversational Speech API for Your LLM

#29
post #30

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Why is every comment here from an account with no other comments ?

Ugh. Sorry. Probably some of their users found out about this thread.

I'm going to move all of this to an offtopic stub and collapse it.

We tell founders to make sure this doesn't happen (see https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html) but I probably need to make the message louder. Not everyone understands that the culture of HN doesn't work this way.

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