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Before I continue, I should mention that I have a quality: I observe, find repetitive patterns and find ways to automate them. It just happens naturally, hardly ever intentionally.

I have been in this role for quite a while now. Most of my colleagues are of nationality X (I guess we all know what X is in IT projects). Naturally, there are lots of repetitions all over the place. So I started the automation.

The Frontend of the automation is a slack bot. It's just like another member of our team. And my goal was to make it as human-like as I could.

I launched the bot a few months ago.

Today I start my shift and see other employees of nationality X persistently asking my bot to join the conference call. Apparently, they assumed that the bot is just another X fellow...

Took them a while to give up.

What does that tell us about X.....

P.S. I have coded human-like conversation capability to keep on chatting even when the bot doesn't understand what it's asked to do.

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  • 5
    *bot is sad and feels left out*
  • 9
    Is this at your company? So are people going to complain that <bot name> never has to come to meetings?
  • 11
    Joke's on you, they replaced the bot with an intern
  • 11
    Sounds like you need to code some text to speech and let the not join their calls now. See how long it takes em to figure out it's a bot.
  • 3
    What did you use to generate the responses? Coincidentally I'm just looking at OpenAI's GPT-3 engines, and it does pretty much exactly what this describes. It's in private beta though with many restrictions, so I'm interested in potential alternatives.
  • 13
    Teach the bot to say "my mike is broken I can only do chat" and then give it your job.
  • 5
    @Demolishun yepp, that's at my company. Well not MINE mine.. if I owned it I wouldn't be here :D
    Nevertheless, I'm afraid the bot might be promoted to mgmt. That would be.. something..
  • 3
    @RememberMe nope, the bot's running on my laptop (still waiting for them to provision a set of k8s deployments for this initiative). Although I see why you might think that :)
  • 7
    @Condor I made it all myself. NLP and responses -- all home-made. I simply have prepared a set of possible answers for either of the cases the bot can handle and return either of the valid responses randomly. That's enough to feel human-like. Even better - that's more than X-like :) I'm proud of myself for building a bot that's more real-life-like than X people IRL :D

    The same's with the cases the bot cannot handle, i.e. CommandNotFoundTask :) Find many ways to say the same thing et voila - you've got yourself an X human.
  • 5
    @HiFiWiFiSciFi FWIW I've been slacking off for the last 2-3 months already :) You wouldn't believe how much time I now have on my hands! In fact, I've reached the level where I actually want to do some tasks myself... out of boredom :D

    As for "my mic is broken", I've taught it to say smth like "I cannot join the meeting ATM. Perhaps some of my colleagues could. FYA <!subteam^AAAA|BBBBB>". In different ways :) That oughta do it :)
  • 11
    @vomitmachine My idea was to find some API for the conferences' service, join the call and play RickRoll quietly in the background :) That's a TODO
  • 2
    Check out "Lenny" on youtube:

    https://youtube.com/watch/...

    Those are hilarious.
  • 5
    @netikras ohhh that's such a wonderful idea. Please do that. Subtle enough where no one would hear it at first.
  • 6
    @vomitmachine Especially when it's the WFH days... Noone's gonna know who's playing, and even when they hear it - they'll assume it's smth in the background (other room/street/yard/etc.) :)
  • 3
    Just to be sure: Are we talking about indians, chineese, or participation medal snowflake murricans here?
  • 4
    @netikras if you do add that feature, please make another post about it. I wanna hear how it goes down
  • 2
    @vomitmachine Ooh, logs of a convo?
  • 4
    Not sure why X/nationality matters here. You did a good job at automation (kudos!), but why try to dog whistle like this?
  • 2
    @Nanos Obviously, the developer seems to be *very neutral* -- so that should be called a "bug" or maybe a "feature"?
  • 3
    Why is no one asking? What tf is "nationality X"?
  • 1
    📌
  • 0
    @sulkysheer let's just call them... elbonians :)
  • 2
    "My condition makes me incapable of speech and even hearing you. I thank you for your invite but a meeting just isn't going to work out"
  • 0
    @sulkysheer
    Well, i sort of did.
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