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hgunasekara

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Co-founder of Prosona, ex-Square
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hgunasekara··on [dead]
Since they are discontinuing Techcrunch+. Can someone help me out?
hgunasekara··on Ask HN: In SF, where do all the AI start ups co-work from?
Thank you frankacter!
hgunasekara··on Ask HN: In SF, where do all the AI start ups co-work from?
Funny guy
hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
We want to emphasize how important privacy is to us. It felt wrong to be able to access a company's private knowledge so we set out to make the system as secure as possible. In terms of our embedded vector DB, we use Homomorphic Encryption to vectorize the embeddings. We are still super early - started hacking on this project 7 weeks ago, in the near future we plan to get SOC 2 compliant so we can definitively prove that we are secure.

You can read more about Homomorphic Encryption here: https://aclanthology.org/2022.finnlp-1.4.pdf

hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
We will definitely make this a feature! Providing awareness on whether it is an AI or human response will be key for trust with colleagues. It is worth noting that messages are approved before being sent so you have total visibility as to what is going out.
hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
Great question! We realized documentation will always be patchy and imperfect which is why we put you in the loop so that you can provide extra context. There will always be information in your head that is not written down and we streamline your ability to disseminate that information. It also means there is accountability in the case where the question is used to make a decision.

This launch is only the first step for us. In the future, edits you make to the response could be used to update upstream documents making the hive mind even more connected.

hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
Think about it like a bike for workplace communication. While walking is fine, you can get further with a bicycle. We are streamlining your workflow to give you back time - this allows you to focus on other, more important, things
hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
Not for our MVP but we are working on a feature that will all you to show whether your response was AI assisted or not
hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
Hey Xena, we fine-tune on your personal tone - this makes responses sound authentic ad is a great base to make further edits. We did this to amplify the individual since we believe people are the center of knowledge sharing. Discussion is key and we felt documentation alone wasn't created that space to share thoughts and ideas.
hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
Hey smt88, we use a similar approach to Cloak AI which is encrypting vector embeddings.

https://ironcorelabs.com/blog/2023/announcing-encrypted-ai-e...

hgunasekara··on Show HN: Prosona – Your co-pilot for intelligent responses in Slack
We are integrated directly into your workflow, helping you answer questions that come to you. Even though we had Glean at our companies, we still got faced with many questions. Prosona saves you time compared to doing a search on Glean yourself since it is also written in your tone.