And now we have all the building blocks, looks like I’ll finally return to Project: Replace Alexa

  • cynar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Our personalities are just a series of habits we have built up. Ultimately, my monkey brain doesn’t really understand that the voice it is talking to doesn’t belong to a real person. If I get into the habit of being rude, that will spill over into my interactions with real humans. It’s honestly less effort to be polite to an AI than to be rude to an AI, but polite to fellow humans.

    I will admit though, I do sometimes drop into dog training mode. Short, clear commands with controlled tone. It improves reliability, but requires more mental effort. I generally wouldn’t use them to a real person, outside of emergency situations. Overriding this uses mental effort.