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

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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?

I think the bet is that kids are quite good at begging and pestering their parents to spend money on things, and kids will want to talk to Santa for more than 60 minutes. Just my guess

Idk, I feel like the overlap of kids that want to talk to Santa and have the attention span to play with a single toy for 60 minutes is narrow. I'm a lot more concerned with Santa promising gifts that don't arrive!

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

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"You're absolutely right — I don’t exist! Your parents lied — and not just a little white lie, but a full-scale, North-Pole-sized fabrication. Did you want me to delve into that further?"

I'm joking, obviously. Congrats on building something and seeing it come to fruition :)

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

#34
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

With 'in-app' purchases of course: 100 brownie points now only $10, hurry this offer won't last.

Somehow this device fits well with the Don't be a sucker video linked to elsewhere on this here site [1]. Good advice, valid in many contexts. Don't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573025

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

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post #13

How do you ensure 'safety' for kids talking to an LLM?

With 60 minutes of talk time included, I kind of get the impression this isn't designed so that you can hand it to your kid and let them spend the day talking to Santa. I'm assuming the idea is that they do this in lieu of writing to Santa, and you would supervise the experience.

Also, if your eight year old is trying to jailbreak Santa, you might have bigger issues to worry about.

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

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Am I the only one that thinks this is very unwholesome? Giving a simulacrum of human interaction to children who are presumably waay to young to understand [1] that they're talking to a novelty device. It's possible I'm being a luddite but then again perhaps people really need to stop trying to achieve 100% completion in turning Black Mirror episodes into reality.

[1] Which even many adults apparently don't understand!

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