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New comment by financypants in "My first blog post: On the Conversational AI Audio Pipeline"

financypants — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:44:58 +0000

Thank you for the feedback, I will increase the font weight.

I'd say not great for societal well-being. I'd say it's preying on the lonely. Even with a thinly personified system prompt, some models will suddenly start calling you "babe" and be generally hyper-flirtatious.

The most optimistic light you could shine on it is: let's make an assistant that responds like a human, tells you when you're being weird, tells you when you're wrong, etc.

Loved that TED talk, thanks for sharing!

New comment by financypants in "My first blog post: On the Conversational AI Audio Pipeline"

financypants — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:49:52 +0000

Hey folks! Long-time lurker here. I posted my first piece of content on what I've learned building in the conversational AI space. I'd love your thoughts on what I got wrong, if/how it was useful, general comments, etc. Thank you for taking the time.

My first blog post: On the Conversational AI Audio Pipeline

financypants — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:49:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wallacecorp.ai/content

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47044157

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by financypants in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

financypants — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:51:27 +0000

Their cars cost waymo money

New comment by financypants in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

financypants — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:48:46 +0000

with subtitles flashing in the center of the screen

New comment by financypants in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

financypants — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:28:48 +0000

Free yourself from the worry of shopping cart dings today! My solution was buying a hail damage car.

New comment by financypants in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

financypants — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 03:26:30 +0000

The small and quasi-loophole to getting a good used car deal is buying a hail damage car. I genuinely don't understand why cars were made to have shiny paint. Cars drive on dirty roads with insects and pebbles abound. Paint doesn't matter. Car washes are crazy, except to abait rust

New comment by financypants in "Using Microsoft's New CLI Text Editor on Ubuntu"

financypants — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 21:14:01 +0000

i use ctrl + quite often but didn't know about ctrl + backspace! Also, I think mac's cmd + shift + left arrow or right arrow work so well.

New comment by financypants in "Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket"

financypants — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:49:25 +0000

Those japanese rockets are much smaller compared to our big american sized rockets

New comment by financypants in "Working on databases from prison"

financypants — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:34:54 +0000

Something like prison probably is the most productive environment one could be in. It almost completely eliminates the need for self discipline because it's all enforced.

New comment by financypants in "parrot.live"

financypants — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:22:43 +0000

That crashed my ssh session into my rapberry pi

New comment by financypants in "Binary Wordle"

financypants — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:29:44 +0000

That's pretty good, considering they give you 110 tries

New comment by financypants in "The rise of judgement over technical skill"

financypants — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:32:12 +0000

Have people noticed the ai-assisted code "creep"? Cursor now by default applies its changes before you've even hit accept, and the tab autocomplete is getting out of control. Sometimes I'll have my cursor resting on some block of code, then suddenly Cursor suggests I delete the whole thing.

New comment by financypants in "Canonicals Interview Process"

financypants — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 21:40:06 +0000

I'd love to know at what rate the long essay questions are read. Maybe we get to a point where applicants have AI write them and then no one reads them!

New comment by financypants in "Airbnb is in midlife crisis mode"

financypants — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:42:31 +0000

I believe there is a penalty for the host

New comment by financypants in "Dasung Paperlike 13K is a 13.3 inch E Ink color monitor"

financypants — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:56:23 +0000

Let's assume refresh rate and color quality can get "good enough" to where it can work for daily work stuff, excluding gaming or graphic design. Then I see a strong argument for eink. I think we're all damaging our eyes staring at LEDs all day.

New comment by financypants in "When flat rate movers won't answer your calls"

financypants — Mon, 05 May 2025 03:10:10 +0000

less shit, I believe, is always the solution!

New comment by financypants in "How to live an intellectually rich life"

financypants — Fri, 02 May 2025 14:52:26 +0000

ah yes, read 100 books, abide by 1,000,000 rules

New comment by financypants in "We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job"

financypants — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:13:52 +0000

The rate of this happening has got to be so low it's negligible.

New comment by financypants in "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]"

financypants — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:56:47 +0000

Untrap is amazing. On top of that, things like removing all apps from my home screen and turning of almost all notifications has improved my focus and my life a lot.