Show HN: AI assistant to help you find the perfect restaurant for every occasion

oogway.ai

1 point·aniketmalvankar··4 comments

Hi HN,

We want to build an AI assistant to help people make better decisions. To get started, we decided to pick a decision all the founders struggle with: where should you eat tonight? With our alpha, we are trying to solve the problem of users typing a complex restaurant query that could be broken up into filters. One of the problems with current AI solutions is that they don’t make it obvious what the AI understood from your query and used to produce the results.

We also wanted to test if the chatbot interface makes it easier to decide than regular search does. On the technical side, we’re using state-of-the-art natural language processing (NLP) and planning to dramatically improve AI capabilities over time by taking advantage of the rapid pace of AI improvement.

Happy to answer any questions about it!

This has potential ... but it goes into one of several "you're too picky" memes for relatively "easy" requests ("I want a romantic dinner with my girlfriend in Oakland, she prefers Korean cuisine").

If you're all about AI transparency, maybe the system could show you workable filters that would still change results after each sentence?

Yes, you are right we are getting that feedback. If you type in options it will show you what options you have. We are planning on making it so you see the last set of results when there are none. We are also planning to make it easy to remove options

Hey @DocTomoe, we have added the functionality to remove filters if that results in no matches based on your suggestion. If you have some time give it a try. We are also thinking about providing alternatives.

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