Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps • Hacker News Board

Jarvis is a tech enabled person. You will be assigned two US based, college educated personal assistants. They will work together. They are able to operate efficiently because they are aided by artificial intelligence and futuristic tech.

What it means:

We got a phone and a computer yo.

Re: Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps

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Post by toomuchtodo » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 2:50 PM UTC

jgmmo wrote: post #3

Named after Iron Man's AI? Which reminds me -- was the new Windows phone AI - Cortana - named after the HALO AI?

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cortana

"Cortana is an intelligent personal assistant on Windows Phone 8.1. [2] Its name comes from Cortana, the artificial intelligence character in the Halo series, with Jen Taylor, the character's voice actress, returning to voice the personal assistant's US-specific version.[3]"

Re: Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps

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Post by IgorPartola » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 3:06 PM UTC

So I looked up this concept and stumbled upon this article: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/08/...

Admittedly, this is about an India-based call center, but I think some points still stand.

Re: Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps

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Post by billmalarky » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 3:13 PM UTC

sheetjs wrote: post #2

From 5 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8094351

I think it is absolutely acceptable (and good business sense) to re-submit to hackernews given a major update to re-engage the community and get feedback on new features etc. This, however, is pretty obviously spam.

My advice to jarvis if they want to stay regularly in front of this audience without spamming, is to only submit when a major update to the service has rolled out, or to create an interesting blog with valuable content and submit that to hackernews. Your brand can tag along with the content keeping you in front of our eyeballs.

Re: Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps

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Post by nobodysfool » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 6:37 PM UTC

Yuioup wrote: post #4

What it says: Is Jarvis a person? Jarvis is a tech enabled person. You will be assigned two US based, college educated personal assistants. They will work together. They are able to operate efficiently because they are aided by artificial intelligence and futuristic tech. What it means: We got a phone and a computer yo.

Yea pretty much. I don't know if I'd be comfortable with other people reading my emails.

Re: Jarvis - Your Personal Assistant Who Never Sleeps

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Post by nobodysfool » Mon, Aug 04, 2014, 5:04 PM UTC

Yuioup wrote: post #4

What it says: Is Jarvis a person? Jarvis is a tech enabled person. You will be assigned two US based, college educated personal assistants. They will work together. They are able to operate efficiently because they are aided by artificial intelligence and futuristic tech. What it means: We got a phone and a computer yo.

Another thing I noticed when looking through my comments, this service bills itself as 'your personal assistant who never sleeps'. If they are US based, I don't see how unless they have people working a night shift.