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palmotealast Saturday at 5:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Most of the calls are going to be 'I forgot my password' and 'it's broken' anyways. So having a robot guide people along the FAQs in the 50+ languages is perfectly fine for ~90% (Zuck's number here) of the calls.

No it isn't. Attempts to do this are why I mash 0 repeatedly and chant "talk to an agent" after being in a phone tree for longer than a minute.


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Matthyzelast Saturday at 6:44 PM

And you don't think that this won't improve with better bots?

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exe34last Saturday at 6:51 PM

I try to enunciate very clearly: "What would you like to do?" - "Speak to a fcuking human. Speak to a fcuking human. Speak to a fcuking human. Speak to a fcuking human."

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