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PaperclipPerfector  1mo ago (text post)   3309 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 26, 2025

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I want it to be a good and useful personal assistant; that means not being obtrusive or people-pleasing or fishing for further engagement or trying to be my friend, but having just enough volition to occasionally nag me about stuff I should be doing.

If ask.com still owns the Ask Jeeves trademark, they can sell it for big bucks right now to someone trying to build a good digital personal assistant.

I'm not sure how you can make one that actually prods you to do things unless you give it the ability to physically interact with you somehow.

My phone has a lot of notification and reminder systems, but I ignore those all the time.

My experience also. Easy to drown in notification ocean.

Actually that right there is a use for AI.

Read the notifications pouring in, mute the unimportant, queue up the actionable but not urgent, and only let you see ones that read as actually important (not just "flagged" as important).

Or just do stuff on its own. If I could have Gemini monitor websites XYZ for sales on some consumable and order ten when there's a sale, that would be pretty convenient.

I suspect that's just result in there being no more sales on such items, demand would probably smooth out substantially.

Flip side, AI monitoring how much of a given consumable I have left and then ordering it for me (keeping me in the loop, I'd hope) before it runs out entirely, and doing at least some due diligence to ensure its a decent price.

I suspect that's just result in there being no more sales on such items, demand would probably smooth out substantially.

There's probably some variance in people's willingness to buy in bulk. Costco exists but that hasn't resulted in everyone matching Costco's prices. Maybe more websites will start offering bulk discounts (kind of like subscribe and save).

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