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Hey – Personal commandline assistant

3 points by max0563 12y ago

Gys 12y ago
I would prefer to have some kind of confirmation before something is actually done. For example Hey could show the actual command sequence to be executed and then ask if that is ok to do.
- max0563 12y ago
  When would this really be needed? Hey isn't working with anything really sensitive right now.
  - Gys 12y ago
    For one thing it would be interesting to learn something about Linux. The command would show what would actually be needed. In my opinion Hey is probably only useful (used) by (would be / wannabe) programmers. For the other thing: I would expect it to do more sensitive things in the future. And also: if it would create a directory where I would it not want to be, it would help to say simply no instead of having to remove it later ('Oh, thats the root where it was created; it should have been the Documents folder').
max0563 12y ago
I need some ideas for commands, if anyone had any suggestions that'd be appreciated.
- pathikrit 12y ago
  So, Siri for the terminal? Cool idea but your implementation won't scale (more complex commands and/or beyond English). You need a grammer file and some NLP library. Look at how this is implemented: http://natty.joestelmach.com/ http://natty.joestelmach.com/ Their core is implemented in this grammer file: https://github.com/joestelmach/natty/blob/master/src/main/antlr3/com/joestelmach/natty/generated/DateLexer.g https://github.com/joestelmach/natty/blob/master/src/main/an... Take a look at this too since you wrote it in python: http://www.nltk.org/ http://www.nltk.org/
  - max0563 12y ago
    Very interesting, thanks for the tip. This is my first time parsing natural language like this, it is a bit challenging.
- walterbell 12y ago
  How about supporting composite operations, which invoke more than one command, e.g. a shell pipeline, or an IFTTT-like join between web services? That would make this more than a shell translator.
  - max0563 12y ago
    I could do this using a keyword such as "then" "Hey google "Hacker News" then find me a sushi bar"
ASneakyFox 12y ago
This could be good if you figure out how to support advanced arguments etc. Right now it seems to be a system to handle a large number of aliases for common commands.

3 points by max0563 12y ago

Gys 12y ago

I would prefer to have some kind of confirmation before something is actually done. For example Hey could show the actual command sequence to be executed and then ask if that is ok to do.

max0563 12y ago
When would this really be needed? Hey isn't working with anything really sensitive right now.
- Gys 12y ago
  For one thing it would be interesting to learn something about Linux. The command would show what would actually be needed. In my opinion Hey is probably only useful (used) by (would be / wannabe) programmers. For the other thing: I would expect it to do more sensitive things in the future. And also: if it would create a directory where I would it not want to be, it would help to say simply no instead of having to remove it later ('Oh, thats the root where it was created; it should have been the Documents folder').

max0563 12y ago

I need some ideas for commands, if anyone had any suggestions that'd be appreciated.

pathikrit 12y ago
So, Siri for the terminal? Cool idea but your implementation won't scale (more complex commands and/or beyond English). You need a grammer file and some NLP library. Look at how this is implemented: http://natty.joestelmach.com/ http://natty.joestelmach.com/ Their core is implemented in this grammer file: https://github.com/joestelmach/natty/blob/master/src/main/antlr3/com/joestelmach/natty/generated/DateLexer.g https://github.com/joestelmach/natty/blob/master/src/main/an... Take a look at this too since you wrote it in python: http://www.nltk.org/ http://www.nltk.org/
- max0563 12y ago
  Very interesting, thanks for the tip. This is my first time parsing natural language like this, it is a bit challenging.
walterbell 12y ago
How about supporting composite operations, which invoke more than one command, e.g. a shell pipeline, or an IFTTT-like join between web services? That would make this more than a shell translator.
- max0563 12y ago
  I could do this using a keyword such as "then" "Hey google "Hacker News" then find me a sushi bar"

ASneakyFox 12y ago

This could be good if you figure out how to support advanced arguments etc. Right now it seems to be a system to handle a large number of aliases for common commands.