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Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by duckkg5 on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:42PM (#39266015)
The AI answers the call and acts as a potential customer. They take on personas to simulate behaviors like difficult or reluctant customers. You then do your pitch, handle objections, etc. At the end you get a transcript that's 'graded' to show you where you could improve your sales approach.

And you're right, I'm not a sales guy. This project is for people like me who want a risk-free place to learn the basics of sales so that when I do talk to an actual human, I won't panic and freeze up like I always do.

Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by cabinguy on Monday February 05, 2024 @02:59PM (#39266268)
I absolutely love this idea.

Most high-level sales people rely on role play partners but that requires a pretty a big commitment. This would make a great product, imo.

Also (tip): Study, memorize and internalize a sales script for your product/service...along with the objection handlers and closing questions. Practice every single day. You'll gain massive confidence because you know exactly what you are going to say, every time.

Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by tkgally on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:01PM (#39268419)
> a risk-free place to learn

That's turning out to be a valuable feature of LLMs in many areas. You can practice complex interactions with them without worrying about boring or annoying them. Even the most patient human teacher gets tired eventually. LLMs don't.

Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by spywaregorilla on Monday February 05, 2024 @06:33PM (#39268699)
do you have any reason to believe the phone calls are realistic?
Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by anxman on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @01:14AM (#39271353)
This could be a product. AI sales training.
Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by 3abiton on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @04:49AM (#39272580)
This, for some reason, reminds me of Nathan Fielder rehearsal skits.
Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by BenoitP on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @06:45AM (#39273246)
I'd buy that. I'd buy that for interview preparation as well. Maybe 5$ per hour, up to 15$. I wouldn't buy a subscription, only actual consumption of the service.

Please consider putting it in online.

Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by teleforce on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:30PM (#39284510)
Love the idea of AI grading the answers, hopefully this can be extended to marking/evaluating/grading subjective manuscripts.

For me there's none is more boring than marking/evaluating/grading manuscripts. I prefer hard labor like gardening or farming than doing that activities although I'm quite good at evaluating stuffs I think.

Can you please elaborate how you do this and based on what metrics/scheme/etc the answers are being evaluated?

Re:Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs? by nico on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @02:13PM (#39292863)
This would be amazing to do practice code/tech interviews for software engineering roles

It could work both for practice and for automating interviews as well