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So build your own crappy agent-assistant? In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions mod
by caust1c 1y ago
So build your own crappy agent-assistant?
In earnest though, I'm certain we'll see a community replacement of Siri by end-of-year if the iPhone permissions model allows it or there's some workaround. IDK what the limitations are here but I'm eagerly awaiting the community to step in where Siri has failed.
- Ancapistani 1y agoThe assistant is only half the story here. This looks like a great, well-defined tutorial project to learn how to put this stuff together locally.
- andrewmcwatters 1y agoCrappy? Dude, Siri at one point couldn't even tell you what today's date was. The bar is on the ground.
- 4ndrewl 1y agoThink Different
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoI do not know if it is because I have been trained to make simple requests, but there are only a half dozen things I would verbally ask a robot. - time of day - calendar date - weather - set a timer - simple math calculation That’s 90% of the functionality right there.
- andrewmcwatters 1y agoFunny you mention this. My usage is the same. I suspect we’ve all been trained to expect little-to-nothing from these assistants.
- jihadjihad 1y agoAnd incredibly it manages to get those wrong a non-trivial amount of the time.
- sureIy 1y agoI'm sorry, something went wrong with your "what time is it" request. Oh you asked "what time is it in Miami?" Because I already cut you off after "what time is it". This happens on a daily basis when I'm not talking right into my phone.
- trinix912 1y agoIt's even better asking it to play a playlist I have made and downloaded in Apple Music only for it to say "I'm going to need your permission to access your Spotify data" and play something completely random. Even saying something like "play the playlist ____ in Apple Music" doesn't help, it cuts the "in Apple Music" part of.
- wkat4242 1y agoFor me I ask a lot of things like "How do I say <xxx> in Spanish". It's better than a google translate because it's not quite as literal, it will translate to proper colloquialisms if necessary.
- dang 1y ago> So build your own crappy agent-assistant? "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (Your comment would be fine without that first bit.)
- andreeamiclaus 1y agoA better one* Siri can't even tell me the weather right, this assistant is an elevated version that works first, then performs great second