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I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
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Then they could at least provide more than one option. Though while far from perfect, one of the things I like about Alexa/Echo more than the ability to change it, is that with multiple devices you will generally only trigger one (the others within earshot will listen and then ignore it once one of them has picked it up; works well in my house at least apart from one place where echo/reflection sometimes causes one i…
Yep. Echoes also don't make you pause after the wake word, so you can actually talk to it naturally. Also, when you tell them to shut up they shut up . The way Google Homes throw a tantrum when you're rude to them will make you want to reach through the cable line and strangle the arrogant son of a bitch who OK'd something that pointlessly infuriating.
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> This is a good case for why system bots/messages/etc. shouldn't be given regular names I disagree. The username can be clyde_discord/clyde_bot and the display name could just be "Clyde". Then the username Clyde wouldn't be taken, and the users would be able to still message the bot and not be confused. Though I personally really dislike simple human names for bots because it sounds cheesy and dumb.
It's not about the username being taken, it's all about what people appear as in the client; bots and scammers might impersonate Clyde to steal credentials, social engineer, etc, so you cannot be "Clyde_help" nor "Clyde_Official" nor any variation that would make people think the bot/user is speaking on behalf of Discord.
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Amazon: Alexa Microsoft: Cortana Apple: Siri Discord: Clyde Google: Google Disclosure, I work at Google.
Cylde is notably the only male assistant. I guess Discord know their customers.
Siri defaults to male in some countries and languages.
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At least in the naming, sure. Everything else, not so much. I had to switch my whole house over to Echos because you can't change the wake word on Google Home. Every time I said, say, "Hey Google, turn the bedroom lamp off", the Home in the bedroom would say ok and turn the lamp off, both phones in the room would activate and complain that they didn't have a device named lamp listed, and every other Home in the house…
You can't change the wake word because a separate, dedicated chip is listening for it and is not connected to the rest of the device except to wake up the main processor.
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Gizmoduck back in the 80s had this worked out. His bot invocation was "Blathering Blathernsikes".
"Go-go gadget" also doesn't tend to come up in conversation, but I'm not sure if anyone holds a trademark for it
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Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.
Neither was AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon when they named their mobile wallet solution ISIS shortly before the caliphate was formed. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard
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It's not. The reason for this is not technical (unless you think they literally filled their user database with every possible username permutation with the word 'clyde' in it). It's to make sure scammers can't use names with these words in it, because it might make more people consider those accounts legitimate.
Yeah, sure. The very first comment in the Reddit thread says "I use Clydē and it works," and the third one is "CIyde. Use capital i instead of L," so nice try, but no.
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I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Slightly different, but my friend's daughter Isis hasn't been too happy about what's happened since she was born.