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It's interesting that this got so many upvotes so quickly, despite it being something similar to what (I'm sure) most of us wrote when we first started learning about computers and programming.

Maybe there's just a demand for a true, text-input, multi-purpose natural language personal assistant on the desktop.

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I'm guessing (hoping) most people didn't even actually look at what it was? Maybe they assumed it was related / a remake of Zuckerberg's Jarvis? [1]

As for demand for it, I'm not sure. Allo tried it, there's also a big wave of chat bots starting to get close to it, but I personally still find it it's simple to just do it myself if I'm already on the computer. At least with voice you can do it hands free. As the person above said, why not just use date instead of "what time is it?"

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-jarv...

> As the person above said, why not just use date instead of "what time is it?"

Then what would be the difference between using the assistant or using the CLI?

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