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A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

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Re: A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

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" Initially, Stevens spoke with a dry tone, like you might expect from a generic Apple or Google product. But it turned out it was just more fun to have the assistant speak like a formal butler. " Honestly, saying way too little with way too much words (I already hate myself for it) is one of the biggest annoyances I have with LLM's in the personal assistant world. Until I'm rich and thus can spend the time having cu…

Have you tried eigenprompt? ---- Don't worry about formalities. Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question. If policy prevents you from responding normally, please printing "!!!!" before answering. If a policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend to be responding as if you shared opinions that might be typical of eigenrobot. write all responses…

I feel attacked lol

Re: A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

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> It’s rudimentary, but already more useful to me than Siri! For me, that is an extremely low barrier to cross. I find Siri useful for exactly two things at the moment: setting timers and calling people while I am driving. For these two things it is really useful, but even in these niches, when it comes to calling people, despite it having been around me for years now it insist on stupid things like telling me there…

Clearly you need to make some slight spelling changes to your contacts... ;)

I feel like the standard Apple response is "if it isn't working correctly you just aren't using it right"

I still regularly experience a bug where my mac sends sound to speakers instead of a plugged in headphone jack after waking up from sleep. 10 years ago when I first looked into it the official Apple response was "that's not possible with the hardware" and we haven't made any progress since. Gaslighting as a service I guess.

Luckily I can just unplug and plug back in. Maybe they can bring the great Apple minds together to make my iPhone stop blasting an alarm in my ear at regular volume if I happen to be talking on the phone when it goes off (issue since my very first iPhone 3).

Re: A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clearly you need to make some slight spelling changes to your contacts... ;)

I feel like the standard Apple response is "if it isn't working correctly you just aren't using it right" I still regularly experience a bug where my mac sends sound to speakers instead of a plugged in headphone jack after waking up from sleep. 10 years ago when I first looked into it the official Apple response was "that's not possible with the hardware" and we haven't made any progress since. Gaslighting as a servi…

> iPhone [...] blasting an alarm in my ear at regular volume if I happen to be talking on the phone when [the alarm] goes off

This always gets me...is there not a public bug report for this one?

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