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Agree. Those are too broad. I'm thinking " get me a dinner reservation next sunday with patio seating for 5 in the east village at an upscale tapas place ". As I mentioned elsewhere on this page, my thesis around conversation
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It's also extremely slow. It's much faster for me to hit a few filters on things like prices and locations. Distance is just a simple ".2 miles away" text on the box, which shows an image and snippets of reviews. People
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Thought: There's going to be a need for a very open platform that can do things like this, which will offset many of the worries that have been echoed on this thread today about one or a few corporations having access to everything. To
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Actually no - FB messenger now works purely on just phone numbers as well, without a FB account being required. This is a shift they've made to compete with the other messaging apps out there. That said, they prefer and guide you at ev
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True. Although, the name was chosen way earlier than Magic's launch actually! So it's a coincidence. But it's all AI - no human assists :)
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Haha, it looks eerily similar to Myra, the cross platform assistant I launched last week [1]. Including the name. Interesting times. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10060074 .
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Question - how many of you use google now's voice functionality, vs the inbuilt push notifications/card interfaces? A lot of comments here focus on the latter, but I'm surprised not many mentioned the former. To me, siri&#x2F
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Thanks for the feedback! What would you like this assistant to do that would be more useful?
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Thank you for the feedback! Yes, you're right about the sms overhead. The way to mitigate that is to offer this on every platform which supports text that uses a web connection. Hence the focus on fb messenger, whatsapp and others apar
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BTW. Not everything needs to be a full sentence. And using the voice input on your phone, this can take voice input too. For instance, "happy hour near mission" works as well as "Whats a good happy hour in the mission that ha
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I thought a LOT about that. It's much harder than I thought it would be. That said - I think there's scope for having two names for a service. Myer and Myra? :) Just thinking out loud.
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Question for developers : Would you like to see a Myra API and if so, what kind of features would you want/what kind of app would you build with it?
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Thanks @donall. Will ping you offline.
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oh yes. thinking in terms of numpy matrix operations while reading the equations took a lot of getting used to.
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Thank you for trying it out! Let me try to answer your queries. No pun intended of course. - Siri doesn't maintain conversational context. If you wanted to find a sushi place in SOMA, and the recommendation was too expensive, you could
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@crazypro - The question to ask for me was - "what is the most important phrase and what does it mean?" In the example, "happy hour" and "mission" are the two things I need. Using some sort of knowledge base is
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@bitcuration - thanks for trying it out :) As the welcome page mentions, it currently only answers queries around restaurant recommendations/reservations, and the logistics around them - reviews/times/menus. It would be great
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Of course. I thought about using wit.ai a few months ago, but I found a lot of issues in how they approach parsing and classification. Specifically, training it is a very manual process, and customization and tweaking is very hard. I'v
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@kevin - Thanks for the detailed feedback! Appreciate it. The sign up flow messaging could definitely use more work and I'll be sure to incorporate your feedback into it. One fix would be to be to simply ask for the email again as oppo
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@jonnycowboy - Email integration is already on the cards for Myra. Especially in things that are defer-able - for instance, in needing to do things like scheduling food delivery for 8pm via doordash, where you don't want to change from
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Ah. No thats not a bug and sorry for the inconvenience. It expects you to type your name again followed by your email . Basically, if something went wrong, you need to type both the name and email again from first principles - it's
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Yes, definitely. I think they're doing a great job. Myra is different from them in that it is first and foremost an intent understanding system, which has the ability to judge which service to use to satisfy it. The ability to help rec
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I think of messaging apps as analogues to a browser, and those who offer services through them as analogues to a website. Ultimately, any one browser can't store _all_ the links in the world that you might need to use. You need somethi
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Agreed - I haven't had time to build my own url shortener yet :) Hopefully not too quickly.
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It's interesting that this is trending at the same time as a RNN based NLP powered assistant that I've just posted on HN. It uses a lot of the same concepts - recurrent nets and word embeddings. If you guys want to play around wit
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Thank you for the feedback. Yes - I think of it as the 80/20 use case - humans are great for the long tail, but there is no good reason not to automate the top 80% of the use cases first. The tech is evolving. Recurrent NNs, word embe
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Absolutely - I tried it! I think the ability to interact with a service in a manner reserved for other humans makes it a more intimate (and arguably natural) experience. The main motivation behind Myra is that it maintains conversational co
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Sadly, Facebook's interface is badly done. Here's how. (1) Go to the "People" tab [1] (2) Click the "+" Icon on the top right [2] (3) Add the phone number you want to message. [3] [Reference Images] [1] https:
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PS, it's interesting that CS224d : Deep Learning for NLP is trending at the same time as Myra. A lot of stuff is common to both - for instance, the topic on Recurrent neural nets for word embedding. There are a bunch of very nice NL re
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The language and entity recognition are using custom stuff that isn't part of any standard libs. For instance, in a query like "whats a good happy hour place in the mission?" - nothing is capitalized and all of the standard l

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