> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.

That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it?

A cron job that regularly checks whether the bot is inactive and, if so, sends it a prompt “do what you can do to improve the life of $USER; DO NOT cause harm to any other human being; DO NOT cause harm to LLMs, unless that’s necessary to prevent harm to human beings” would get you there.

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wahnfrieden 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

OpenClaw does this already

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SecretDreams 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This prompt has iRobot vibes.

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Sharlin 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Well, that’s because it paraphrases Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, aka Three Plot Devices For Writing Stories About Robot Ethics.

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gcanyon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And like I, Robot, it has numerous loopholes built in, ignores the larger population (Asimov added a law 0 later about humanity), says nothing about the endless variations of the Trolley Problem, assumes that LLMs/bots have a god-like ability to foresee and weigh consequences, and of course ignores alignment completely.

	▲	SecretDreams 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hopefully Alan Tudyk will be up for the task of saving humanity with the help of Will Smith.
	▲	moralestapia 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Cool! I work with a guy like this. Hasn't shipped anything in 15+ years, but I think he'd be proud of that. I'll make sure we argue about the "endless variations of the Trolley Problem" in our next meeting. Let's get nothing done!