| ▲ | stavros 4 hours ago |
| They're "always" running, so they can notify you out of the blue, without you having to initiate a conversation. It's really nice UX to get a message from my assistant saying "hey, it's time to leave for the gym, and don't forget the supermarket bag because you're picking up milk on the way back, as you've run out". |
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| ▲ | mpweiher 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Dunno, my calendar reminds me "out of the blue", without me having to initiate a conversation, that it's time to leave for the gym, no "claw" or "ai" involved. I always have my backpack with me, so if I need milk I can pick it up on the way back. And I am pretty sure that I have to notice if I need milk myself. The tech sounds cool, but whenever I hear about actual applications, I don't see the point. |
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| ▲ | signatoremo 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | That's because you just lack of imagination. Imagine if you have a human personal assistant, what would you ask them to do? Examples: "Find me the cheapest ticket to Las Vegas for the first week of June. Buy one at anytime that you think is reasonable. Wait until no later than two months from now before buying. Get two tickets if my brother can also go". "Email me if anyone posts a Sega multi mega for sale. But only if it's in black color". I have no idea if OpenClaws can already do such a task or not, I don't have one, but it opens up new possibilities. If it isn't there yet, it will be. | |
| ▲ | stavros an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | If you don't have a need for a personal assistant, that's fine, not everyone does. That doesn't mean nobody does. The milk thing was just an example of a tool that can intelligently combine things for you, not a literal "it's a calendar with a milk function". This is a bit like "if I want to call my friends, I have a phone a home, why would I need a mobile?" which somewhat betrays a lack of imagination. | | |
| ▲ | olyjohn an hour ago | parent [-] | | You're just not providing any good examples of what I cant already do with current automation tools. |
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| ▲ | dgellow an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Everything I’ve seen about it feels so over engineered |
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| ▲ | netsharc 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hmm, Google Gemini has access to my Google Tasks and can set reminders. It's also asked me if I want it to check something at "tomorrow 9am", and when I said yes, it managed to do that. |
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| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, that's kind of like it. Agents just have many many more integrations, so they can do many more things. For example, it knows all my preferences, and can search for flights and say things like "this one is more expensive, but skipping the morning wakeup is worth the $20". | |
| ▲ | caminante 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | But have you had consistently good experience with Google Gemini and Google apps? Or read the mixed reviews? For me, Gemini has been hit or miss and somehow less useful than Assistant was 2+ years ago. | | |
| ▲ | netsharc 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | The coding assistant for VSCode is nuts (i.e. gets it wrong a lot, also one time it just got so confused). I have Gemini Pro for free for a year because I bought a Pixel phone, it answers very fast, so I like it. Let's see how I'll feel about shelling out real money when the subscription ends. But on the phone, I still use Assistant (and just have a shortcut to launch the webpage in my browser), because the phone was forcing Gemini, but after 5 minutes of usage I found it was slower for my usages (usually I just tell it to set an alarm and add a reminder/calendar event), and when I asked about my tasks, Gemini would get the task listing from Google Tasks, and keep it in its history... that'll pollute my chat history! |
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| ▲ | dimitri-vs 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| How would it know you've ran out of milk? |
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| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I told it when I noticed. I made a little pendant with a mic I can speak into and it goes to the bot. | | |
| ▲ | LeafItAlone 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I would love to hear more about this! | | |
| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I haven't written it up yet but the repo is here: It's just a MEMS mic, a battery, and an ESP32, very simple but it works amazingly well. I wrote a companion Android app for it and it works extremely reliably! | | |
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| ▲ | imiric 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Turns out Humane was ahead of its time. |
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| ▲ | brcmthrowaway 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| How do people afford this? |
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| ▲ | andoando 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Claude max $100 is way more usage than I need. And yeah its not running all the time, just has a heartbeat file telling it how to check something and run | |
| ▲ | stavros 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | A subscription, really. It doesn't actually run all the time, it just has a cron job that makes it feel that way. |
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