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Re:Ask HN: If you could automate one thing in your home, wha... by brwr on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @11:42PM (#5523097)
So you are talking about giving the house a full personality? That's a fairly interesting idea and I'm not sure if it's an active area of research.

It seems like giving the house a personality would require a huge advance in natural language processing. I don't think it would be a practical idea until a machine is built that can pass the Turing test with flying colors.

It will happen in the future, for sure. The question is when.

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