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Hello, PH! Hue is a side project inspired by one of my favourite apps, Poncho, an early betaworks spin-out, and one of the first AI assistants. I've been playing with Gen AI and RAG for 18 months, and it's now entirely feasible from a technology point of view to build AI assistants for the consumer market that are customisable and deliver consistent outcomes. But what Poncho did that was groundbreaking in its time, and that is still missing from many current applications and tools, was to provide a personable service. What I mean by that, is that Poncho was proactive in surfacing highly relevant information to the user, which it did with a defined personality. That's the idea behind Hue (Poncho was sold and wound down in 2018). There's an interesting space in the upcoming consumer AI market that I don't think Apple or Alexa will fill - a personable AI assistant. Whatever Apple Intelligence delivers in terms of Siri next month, it's guaranteed to be vanilla, inoffensive and lacking interoperability - and that will create white space for experimentation. (The first version of Hue had a personality based on the Jerky Boys, which was... overwhelming). Let me know what you think!

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