Hacker News Reader

Comment by firefoxd | Hacker News Reader

One thing highly underrated in the show is the AI interactions. You ask the computer for something, and it provides the answer. No voice, no conversation, no sass, and most importantly, no anthropomorphism.

Imagine every single time you write a CLI command or perform a mouse click, the computer says "great! Let me do that for you". That's how Siri, Alexa interact. In the Expanse, giving the AI a command is like double clicking on a file. Fast, consise, no fuss.

View on HN

I love this. When I use Google assistant to start a timer, it always says "Sure, 5 minutes. And we're starting now."

This takes about 5 seconds, and the timer doesn't start until it's done. It's a minor annoyance, but I'd prefer a simple chime.

"Put down your weapon. You have four minutes fifty-five seconds to comply."

https://youtu.be/A9l9wxGFl4k

I'd always thought that it was just a "nice" way to hide processing/network latency.

I'd certainly prefer some small chirp of acknowledgement, but I think we need to reduce latency first.

It’s also because the rate of mistakes is high. You wanted a fifteen minute timer but got a fifty minute one? Whoops. Or worse, asking for driving directions for me typically has a 25% success rate, with me having to attempt multiple times to get directions to the place I’m actually trying to go to and not some similarly-named location six states over.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com