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I will put a talking persona on your website

usegoblin.xyz

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The website has demo agents, including "Support persona" Anne, described as "calm and capable", and "Lead gen persona" Gabriel, who is "warm, sharp".

I had a good laugh when I asked them both to tell me how to sort an array in Python, and they did indeed read the whole code, with a smile and intonations.

LOL, glad it made you laugh. I had considered hardening the system prompt to allow only business-related queries.

Over my dead body

What makes you say that?

I see any of these creepy motherfuckers on a business's page, I take my business elsewhere.

As a consumer, if I need to contact you, I want a way to contact a human, not a magic 8 ball that destroys the environment and economy.

When did technology become a magic 8-ball?

Its not "technology", its clankers. The answers given by a clanker are as reliable as a magic 8 ball.

Inasmuch as I remain unsure what to make of this, I think you might need to know that the answer is a deployment choice, not an inherent property of the tool. Our personas are good at performing hand-offs, but the moment they can't help, they can't.

Creepy.

I saw a live demo of the same concept, but full-duplex, i.e. you talk like on a zoom call

We are right in the middle of implementing full duplex. What makes the lab useful for you?

It's not useful, it's dystopian and concerning. People are going to become addicted to it

So sorry

People get addicted to a lot of stuff. Even then, the avatars are supposed to help reduce churn.

Fake "people" will likely increase churn. Have you seen polling numbers for Ai? Chat, especially fake video people, is likely to get heavily regulated. I'm pro ai, but I will reject anyone who tries to get me to use it and shame anyone who builds something like this.

What polls? also, the churn thing is testable. If I demonstrated retention numbers would you be convinced ? In any event. Huge difference between synthetic people and embodied agents.

Anti ai is all the rage right now, polls about that sentiment are easy to find when they aren't beamed into your eyes without your choosing

Genuinely happy to be wrong if there's a number behind it, but "go look" isn't the number.

If you want to create a business around this, as it sounds, you should want to know how the general public feels about Ai and be paying attention to the regulatory developments. We are in a period of dramatic shift, leaders in the transition pay attention to all facets.

Yes, we have. Some of our friends are big players in the AI insurance space. I find that people are wary of AI in the abstract but become more diplomatic when it comes to tools that genuinely solve problems.

"hey, people get addicted to cocaine, too, what's your issue with my meth lab?"

if you think personas are net destructive then make the case

So sorry

Do you want agents to look more like people? Or should they look more like tools?

I could be nicer about this if I wanted to, but I think you're contributing to dystopia.

Tools that look like people.

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