<story><title>Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $</title><url>https://github.com/StarmoonAI/Starmoon</url><text>1. In the US, about 1&amp;#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&amp;#x27;s emotions.&lt;p&gt;2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you&amp;#x27;re having a hard time in life or at work, and you can&amp;#x27;t tell your parents or friends.&lt;p&gt;So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth.&lt;p&gt;We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone. Please leave any opinion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway314155</author><text>&amp;gt; In the US, about 1&amp;#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&amp;#x27;s emotions.&lt;p&gt;Trust me, large language models are not anywhere close to being able to substitute as an effective parent, therapist, or caregiver. In fact, I&amp;#x27;d wager any attempts to do so would have mostly _negative_ effects.&lt;p&gt;I would implore you to reconsider this as a legitimate use case for your open device.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone.&lt;p&gt;Well which is it? Both issues you list heavily imply that your tool will serve as a de facto replacement. But then you finish by saying you don&amp;#x27;t intend to do that. So what aspects of the problems you listed will be solved as a simple &amp;quot;complement tool&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Intralexical</author><text>&amp;gt; In fact, I&amp;#x27;d wager any attempts to do so would have mostly _negative_ effects.&lt;p&gt;It does kinda send an interesting message to a child, doesn&amp;#x27;t it? &amp;quot;You&amp;#x27;re not worth the time of anybody human, so here&amp;#x27;s a machine instead.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And that&amp;#x27;s before the chat even starts (and eventually goes off the rails).</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Open-source real-time talk-to-AI wearable device for few $</title><url>https://github.com/StarmoonAI/Starmoon</url><text>1. In the US, about 1&amp;#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&amp;#x27;s emotions.&lt;p&gt;2. Not everyone is good at making friends and not everyone has a BFF to talk to. Imagine you&amp;#x27;re having a hard time in life or at work, and you can&amp;#x27;t tell your parents or friends.&lt;p&gt;So, we built an open-source project Starmoon and are using affordable hardware components to bring AI characters to real-word objects like toys and plushies to help people emotional growth.&lt;p&gt;We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone. Please leave any opinion.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>throwaway314155</author><text>&amp;gt; In the US, about 1&amp;#x2F;5 children are hospitalized each year that don’t have a caregiver. Caregiver such as play therapists and parents’ stress can also affect children&amp;#x27;s emotions.&lt;p&gt;Trust me, large language models are not anywhere close to being able to substitute as an effective parent, therapist, or caregiver. In fact, I&amp;#x27;d wager any attempts to do so would have mostly _negative_ effects.&lt;p&gt;I would implore you to reconsider this as a legitimate use case for your open device.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We believe this is a complement tool and it is not intended to replace anyone.&lt;p&gt;Well which is it? Both issues you list heavily imply that your tool will serve as a de facto replacement. But then you finish by saying you don&amp;#x27;t intend to do that. So what aspects of the problems you listed will be solved as a simple &amp;quot;complement tool&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fragmede</author><text>&amp;gt; Trust me, large language models are not anywhere close to being able to substitute as an effective parent, therapist, or caregiver.&lt;p&gt;You&amp;#x27;re asking us to trust you, but why should we trust you in this matter?  Regardless of if I think ChatGPT is any good at those things, you&amp;#x27;d need some supporting evidence for that one way or another before continuing.</text></comment>