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Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

#141
Love it. Consider adding to specialized directory for AI agents here https://aiagentsdirectory.com/

Also I have curated AI agent market landscape map, so some of you can check for inspiration https://aiagentsdirectory.com/landscape

Working on subcategories right now to have even better nich discoverability

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

#142

> The next worst offender was actually detecting when someone stopped speaking. ChatGPT is terrible at this in my experience. Always cuts me off.

> Always cuts me off. In my sci-fi novel, when characters speak with their home automation system, they always have to follow the same format: "Tau, , please." It's that "please" at the end that solves the stopped speaking problem. Am looking for alpha readers! (See profile for contact details.)

Honestly, that makes a lot of sense haha

What's funny is that we even have a widely popularized version of this in the form of prowords[0] like "OVER" and "ROGER"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_word

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

#143
post #83

Feedback: if I hadn't seen this posted here, I'd assume this website is malicious. Asking me for my email, microphone, and camera before you've even showed me anything is a deal breaker 100% of the time. You have to show the product first, or I don't actually know whether you actually have a product or are just phishing.

Just give false information.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

#144
I didn't have a great experience. Perhaps load issues, or the HN hug of death?

I found that the AI kept cutting me off, and not leaving time in the conversation to respond. It would cut off utternances before the end and then answer the questions it had asked to me as if it had asked them. I think it could have gone on talking indefinitely.

Perhaps its audio was feeding back, but macs are pretty good with that. I'll try it with headphones next time.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

#145

Incredibly impressive on a technical level. The Carter avatar seems to swallow nervously a lot (LOL), and there's some weirdness with the mouth/teeth, but it's quite responsive. I've seen more lag on Zoom talking to people with bad wifi. Honestly this is the future of call centers. On the surface it might seem like the video/avatar is unnecessary, and that what really matters is the speech-to-speech loop. But once th…

Actually what really matters for a call center is having the problem I called in for resolved promptly.

Agreed. I've been frustrated by the proliferation in AI with technical support. Sometimes it's can't answer a question but thinks it can, so we go round and round in circles.

A couple have had a low threshold for "this didn't solve my answer" and directed me to a human, but others are impossible to escape.

On the other hand, I've had more success with a problem actually getting resolved by a chatbot without speaking to someone more recently... But not a lot more. Ususally I think that because I skew technical and treat Support as a last resort, I've tried everything it wants to suggest.

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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post #74

If you're interested in low-latency, multi-modal AI, Tavus is sponsoring a hackathon Oct 19th-20th in SF. (I'm helping to organize it.) There will also be a remote track for people who aren't in SF, so feel free to sign up wherever you are in the world. https://x.com/kwindla/status/1839767364981920246

Sooo, are you scouting talent and good ideas with this, or is it the kind of hackathon where people give up rights to any IP they produce? Not to be rude, but these days it's best to ask.

> the kind of hackathon where people give up rights to any IP they produce

Wow, I have been attending public hackathons for over a decade, and I have never heard of something like this. That would be an outrage!

Re: Show HN: A real time AI video agent with under 1 second of latency

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post #144

I didn't have a great experience. Perhaps load issues, or the HN hug of death? I found that the AI kept cutting me off, and not leaving time in the conversation to respond. It would cut off utternances before the end and then answer the questions it had asked to me as if it had asked them. I think it could have gone on talking indefinitely. Perhaps its audio was feeding back, but macs are pretty good with that. I'll…

they're trying to demo low-latency so they more-or-less have to be aggressive with cutting you off. that said, i think they're using filler to buy themselves a second or 2 - try a yes-or-no question
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