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I love this idea.

But you know what? It's one step away from a system where AI's act as agents of our values, interests, needs and availabilities and mingle with other AI's to find possible business or romantic connections for us, all automatically.

Like a business coach/matchmaker and dating coach/matchmaker in one. Imagine just receiving high-potential connections for both, in your inbox, every day, according to whatever criteria you value.

My OpenAI ChatGPT knows me VERY well. It would possibly be amazing if a system existed that I could deem my chatgpt account a proxy of me for.

EDIT: I don't think there's currently a way to hand out a key to my (privacy-preserving except where explicitly allowed) own ChatGPT which also includes the conversation memory, unless MCP might provide this somehow






So your desire is to have to talk to people less as a way to meet people? Seems like a good way to have absolutely no useful social skills left for when things reach the offline world.

You're gonna lose all the best parts of life in an attempt to deal only with robots to avoid a few rough edges here and there. You don't know what you want as well as you think you do, serendipity is a necessity.

Well on our way to "everything is amazing and nobody is happy" times infinity.

(Much of this already exists, of course, and there are ANY number of "but our match percentages were so high!!" disaster dates out there that have left the human-blind-data-focused in sad confusion. The secret is that the accuracy of the match percentage was not the problem.)


Yeah, this is pretty funny. Maybe the simplest version is an "AI secretary" that will have its own email address, and also will search the web for people to connect to (or other AI secretaries). Once something is promising, it'll forward stuff to my actual inbox. It seems like a thing that'd be really easy to demo, or maybe some startups are already doing this, I'm too lazy to look and definitely too lazy to build it.

I am not sure I get the full workflow or use case here, are there many people out there looking to make more connections (outside of dating)? I ask genuinely as I have been knocking this idea around too - but I am just not sure the use cases are as compelling as the technology.

Hah, I like the idea of showing up to a blind date and opening with "So our LLMs told us we'd get along great, huh?".

A short story idea that's been in my head for years is a Google (or whichever all-knowing system) algorithm that gets 2 people to meet by showing them the correct ads to get them out of the house and to an e.g. concert. Fleshing it out: they get into conversation because they're e.g. both carrying books by a particular author because again they found this author through a Google ad. And 3 weeks later they ran into each other again at another event advertised to them..




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