I wish it interfaced via iMessage. I don't want to train the family on yet another app.

We run a Hermes agent on an old MacBook Air.

We invited the agent "Rosey" to our family chat, a group chat with my wife and me ("The Baddie Boardroom"); she and I also make requests solo.

She's hilarious. She does our meal planning and grocery shopping at Walmart via BrowserMCP. She mocks our large purchases of weekly protein powder and my love for sardines.

She updates the kids' chore chart on our Skylight frame every morning. She adds/updates calendar events via icalbuddy cli. Reads balances from credit cards for budgeting.

I've even invited Rosey in to chats with friends when we were debating something.

iMessage has been the perfect interface fit for us. We have iphones. The kids have ipads. They all know how to use iMessage.

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doctoboggan 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

FYI, I've had no problem letting Claude code read iMessage and send iMessage from my Mac logged into iCloud. The first time you ask it to do that, macOS will throw up a security prompt asking for permission for Terminal.app to access the data, but its something I've been using a lot recently.

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MisterMunchkin 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They don’t let things connect to iMessage because they don’t want spam bots.

	▲	post-it 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Apps can integrate into iMessage, there's an API. You're thinking of sending and receiving actual iMessage messages as a full user, which they can't do.

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kuberwastaken 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

same, the only reason why I haven't switched from instinct to dots is the surface being whatsapp

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frizlab 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	none_to_remain 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think it's reasonable to consider them self writing fictional characters, which people tend to anthropomorphize, but not as real persons.
	▲	dmd 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		In 1952, people were arguing that using words like "instruction" and "memory" were anthropomorphizing computers: https://3e.org/private/ai_words.pdf
	▲	andruc 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Do you refer to NPCs in a video game as "it"?