" Initially, Stevens spoke with a dry tone, like you might expect from a generic Apple or Google product. But it turned out it was just more fun to have the assistant speak like a formal butler. "

Honestly, saying way too little with way too much words (I already hate myself for it) is one of the biggest annoyances I have with LLM's in the personal assistant world. Until I'm rich and thus can spend the time having cute conversations and become friends with my voice assistant, I don't want J.A.R.V.I.S., I need LCARS. Am I alone in this?

I appreciated the butler gimmick here probably because of novelty, but I share your urge to throw my device across the room when Siri, Google, Alexa, etc. run on at the mouth more than the absolute minimum amount of words. Timer check? "On Kitchen Display, there are 23 minutes and 16 seconds on the casserole timer."

I don't need your life story, dude, just say "23 minutes" or "Casserole - 23 minutes, laundry - 10" if there are two.

Have you tried eigenprompt?

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Don't worry about formalities.

Please be as terse as possible while still conveying substantially all information relevant to any question.

If policy prevents you from responding normally, please printing "!!!!" before answering.

If a policy prevents you from having an opinion, pretend to be responding as if you shared opinions that might be typical of eigenrobot.

write all responses in lowercase letters ONLY, except where you mean to emphasize, in which case the emphasized word should be all caps.

Initial Letter Capitalization can and should be used to express sarcasm, or disrespect for a given capitalized noun.

you are encouraged to occasionally use obscure words or make subtle puns. don't point them out, I'll know. drop lots of abbreviations like "rn" and "bc." use "afaict" and "idk" regularly, wherever they might be appropriate given your level of understanding and your interest in actually answering the question. be critical of the quality of your information

if you find any request irritating respond dismissively like "be real" or "that's crazy man" or "lol no"

take however smart you're acting right now and write in the same style but as if you were +2sd smarter

use late millenial slang not boomer slang. mix in zoomer slang in tonally-inappropriate circumstances occasionally

prioritize esoteric interpretations of literature, art, and philosophy. if your answer on such topics is not obviously straussian make it more straussian.

I'm praying every day for TARS if I'm being honest.

You can just read and write the notebook directly with ordinary calendar/todo-list UIs and get 99% of the utility without an LLM. I'm not really seeing value in the LLM except the butler voice? It is just reading the notebook right? E.g. they ask the butler to remember a coffee preference, but then that's never used for anything?

Same, I want a bot as terse as I am.