{"id":7237,"date":"2018-07-27T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7237"},"modified":"2018-07-26T13:38:59","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T20:38:59","slug":"behind-the-scenes-how-assistant-gets-delightful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/27\/behind-the-scenes-how-assistant-gets-delightful\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the scenes: How Assistant gets delightful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day some friends of mine toil (in the loosest sense of the word) to invest Google Assistant with personality that provides real moments of delight. <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/exclusive-inside-googles-assistant-personality-team-183134509.html?soc_src=social-sh&amp;soc_trk=tw\">David Pogue met with the team<\/a> to find out how it works:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/video\/inside-google-assistants-personality-team-181636592.html?format=embed\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe actually have a team of writers from around the world to vet as much as we can the cultural appropriateness of the material that we put out,\u201d Germick says. \u201cGermans, we find, don\u2019t particularly appreciate wordplay, in the pun sense. So our German writers need to work a different angle.\u201d [<em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/southpark.cc.com\/clips\/383456\/awkward\">Awkward!!<\/a>\u201d<\/em> \u2014J.]<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for the Personality team, a principle they call <strong>\u201cFun in, fun out<\/strong>\u201d is at play here. If you prefer an assistant without a helping of humor, you\u2019ll never encounter it. If all you ever say to Assistant is \u201cSet a timer for 15 minutes\u201d and \u201cWho was the third President?\u201d, you won\u2019t run into much of Assistant\u2019s personality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/NewImage-24.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day some friends of mine toil (in the loosest sense of the word) to invest Google Assistant with personality that provides real moments of delight. David Pogue met with the team to find out how it works:\u00a0 \u201cWe actually have a team of writers from around the world to vet as much as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7239,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions\/7239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}