Leon: An open-source personal assistant

Re:Leon: An open-source personal assistant by TeMPOraL on Friday February 15, 2019 @01:42PM (#19173513)

You can choose between "he", "she" and "it", at least in regular English, sans the XXI-century additions. "It" usually refers to things, so if you want to humanize your bot/robot - as many people tend to - you're stuck with picking a gender.

At least in English you don't have nouns automatically selecting gender for you, like in other languages.

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Re:Leon: An open-source personal assistant by nicoburns on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:04PM (#19173701)

> You can choose between "he", "she" and "it", at least in regular English, sans the XXI-century additions.

Or "they". People seem to think that singluar they is some kind of modern invention, but most people also use it all the time without thinking when talking about people that they don't know the gender.

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Re:Leon: An open-source personal assistant by _emacsomancer_ on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:10PM (#19173759)

Not to mention it's used by Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

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Re:Leon: An open-source personal assistant by wonks on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:20PM (#19176051)

Is it just me, or is humanizing these things so much itself kind of creepy? I prefer not to call Siri "she" for that reason alone.

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Re:Leon: An open-source personal assistant by airstrike on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:59PM (#19176513)

I go all-in on the weirdness and make my Siri call me "master" just for shits and giggles

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