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Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by IncreasePosts » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

ivape wrote: post #11

How’d you manufacture something like this? How’d you get Walmart to sell it? How everything please. I got an idea for a mean talking toothbrush.

Imagine the expanded possibilities of tony the toilet buddy: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc&t=90s&pp=2AFakAIB

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by rideontime » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:42 PM UTC

fukka42 wrote: post #14

> Generous Talk Time: 60 minutes of talk time included, and additional minutes are available for purchase for extended holiday entertainment throughout the season So the thing costs a 100 dollars and then you can only use it for an hour before needing to pay more?

Imagining the parent who could barely afford this only to discover that it dies after an hour of usage unless they keep feeding the meter is making me very sad.

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by joshu » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:43 PM UTC

already gone. anywhere else to get it?

how hard is it to reprogram?

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Post by observationist » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC

hagbard_c wrote: post #15

deanputney wrote: post #12

What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?

Santa will tell your son or daughter to go beg his or her parents to pay 'santa' for more talk time: Generous Talk Time: 60 minutes of talk time included, and additional minutes are available for purchase for extended holiday entertainment throughout the season That's not what I understood Santa to be like.

Something like as follows:

Rule 34.vc - if it exists, it can be enshittified.

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:53 PM UTC

hagbard_c wrote: post #15

deanputney wrote: post #12

What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?

Santa will tell your son or daughter to go beg his or her parents to pay 'santa' for more talk time: Generous Talk Time: 60 minutes of talk time included, and additional minutes are available for purchase for extended holiday entertainment throughout the season That's not what I understood Santa to be like.

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Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by teaearlgraycold » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:53 PM UTC

architectonic wrote: post #16

How much computing power would one need to get this working completely local running a half decent llm fine tuned to sound like santa with all tts, stt and the pipecat inbetween?

I started looking into this with a Pi 5. It seemed like it was not quite performant enough. But I'm not an expert with these things and maybe someone else could make it work. We definitely have the technology to pull this off in this form factor. It would just be really expensive (maybe $500) and might also get a little hot.

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by teaearlgraycold » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC

rideontime wrote: post #22

fukka42 wrote: post #14

> Generous Talk Time: 60 minutes of talk time included, and additional minutes are available for purchase for extended holiday entertainment throughout the season So the thing costs a 100 dollars and then you can only use it for an hour before needing to pay more?

Imagining the parent who could barely afford this only to discover that it dies after an hour of usage unless they keep feeding the meter is making me very sad.

TBH I kind of doubt this is the kind of toy a kid would request. It feels like something a parent with extra disposable income would buy so they can record a cute video.

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by bithive123 » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 11:00 PM UTC

deanputney wrote: post #12

What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?

"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you'd like to keep talking to me, please provide a credit card number. Merry christmas!"

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by BeetleB » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 11:05 PM UTC

mosura wrote: post #10

I can’t help feeling this technology will end up more widely deployed for a related but less wholesome application.

Are 1-900 numbers still a thing? Are all those people going to lose their jobs?

And the really scary question: Am I to be sad if they do?

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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Post by BeetleB » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 11:07 PM UTC

bithive123 wrote: post #28

deanputney wrote: post #12

What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?

"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you'd like to keep talking to me, please provide a credit card number. Merry christmas!"

Better would be something along the lines of "You were only so good this year, and the time is up. If you want to talk more, you need to earn more good points with your mom and dad!"

No idea how you'd monetize that, though.