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colingauvintoday at 1:54 AM1 replyview on HN

Curious what you mean by proactive? Could you share a bit more?


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ninjahawk1today at 2:11 AM

Happily, current AI is interacted with in a reactive loop. I open the Claude app, CLI, whatever, say my prompt, get an output.

I personally wanted an AI that was able to reach out to me about my life before I had to reach out to it. An example, a friend just emailed me asking to meet for at 1pm but I have class at 1:30, so a proactive AI would see that conflict and send me a notification about it, asking if the proposed email it drafted works, then I press send.

My personal setup tracks my mouse movement, keyboard, what’s on my screen, and keeps track of what I’m working on through files on my PC. It can update the backend and then restart it on it’s own, meaning I can develop the thing itself while being away from my PC.

The capabilities are more than what I’ve listed, but I want to avoid being too preachy about something I made. Here’s the repo if you wanted to take a look, it’s open-source and connects to the iPhone app:

https://github.com/getorb/Orb-Backend

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