AI assistant keeps pitching football and Uber Eats to a user who cares about neither
SIGKITTEN · x · 2026-11-12
Developer SIGKITTEN shares a screenshot of his AI personal assistant eagerly recommending tonight's Giants game (rain looks near-certain) and nudging him to spend $20 of expiring Uber Cash on a first Uber Eats order — despite knowing nothing about football and never using Uber Eats.
The complaint highlights a real gap in today's AI assistants: they hold context (credits, schedules) but not user preferences, so more proactive messaging just becomes spam.
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