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		raus22 on March 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voic... > I found the level of synthetic bubbliness in the voice extremely off-putting. My thought exactly, it was to the extreme in its, as you say, bubbliness. I would not be able to use a tool that had this behavior.

jazzyjackson on March 2, 2025 [–]

Douglas Adams was onto something when he decided the superintelligent servant in Hitchhikers Guide was to loudly complain about its endless depression. Maybe then we’ll only ask things of it when we actually need it and otherwise avoid interaction.

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