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I remember fooling around with the Microsoft Assistant APIs of that era — there were a number of downloadable characters you could have on your desktop, and you

by rcarmo 4y ago

I remember fooling around with the Microsoft Assistant APIs of that era — there were a number of downloadable characters you could have on your desktop, and you could script various animations, gestures, prompts and tie it in to your programs.

Jaruzel 4y ago
It's shame those APIs are now retired and are no longer part of Windows, as having those assistants as front ends to proper ML/AI systems would be a fun coding experiment. Personally I loved the Wizard avatar.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  He was actually named Merlin, I think.