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156 points Sean-Der | 2 comments | 12 Oct 25 14:15 UTC | HN request time: 0.416s | source

Alt link: https://mrchristmas.com/products/santas-magical-telephone

Video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z7QJxZWFQg

The first time I talked with AI santa and it responded with a joke I was HOOKED. The fun/nonsense doesn't click until you try it yourself. What's even more exciting is you can build it yourself:

libpeer: https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer

pion: https://github.com/pion/webrtc

Then go do all your fun logic in your Pion server. Connect to any Voice AI provider, or roll your own via Open Source. Anything is possible.

If you have questions or hit any roadblocks I would love to help you. I have lots of hardware snippets on my GitHub: https://github.com/sean-der.

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deanputney ◴[13 Oct 25 22:15 UTC] No.45573915[source]▶
What happens when you use up the 60 minutes of talk time?
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bithive123 ◴[13 Oct 25 23:00 UTC] No.45574228[source]▶
"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you'd like to keep talking to me, please provide a credit card number. Merry christmas!"
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1. midnitewarrior ◴[14 Oct 25 04:46 UTC] No.45576355[source]▶
"Ho ho ho! I'm sorry but our time is up. If you want to keep talking to Santa, go into Daddy's wallet or Mommy's purse and bring Santa the rectangular cards with the numbers on it. Now, let's play a numbers game! You read the numbers on that card to me, and I'll tell you what you're getting for Christmas!"
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2. butlike ◴[14 Oct 25 19:30 UTC] No.45583817[source]▶
"Santa needs more money to function"