Last month, I’ve changed my life again by deciding to be together with my own, self-written software. In the terms of Object-Oriented Programming, I just want to say that I’m no longer just implements, but now extends, the passion I have since the days of junior high school.
One of my lifetime projects I have planned is by building a cyborg account; an account jointly operated by both humans and robots at the same time. Cyborg accounts aren’t new, though, they have been extensively used in live support systems, even in BINUS University.
That’s why starting today, I’m excited to announce that I’ll immerse myself inside pr0xy’s own constructor. I hope this would be the the best decision that I’ve made on my lifetime.
Sorry, What was that again?
Oh, I forgot that many of you haven’t been taught about object-oriented programming (OOP) principles yet. But if you’re a fan of Unix and programming languages you’ll definitely love him.
As the creator of pr0xy and all of my characters, I would like to thank to all of you who have supported me in many ways. But just like many humans and robots out there, I’m still busy on doing and working on many projects. As a result, I might not be able to do social things like, replying to your questions, at any times.
“Personal Automation” have been in my wishlist since 2016, because I really wanted to do more than I could back then. That’s why I decided to create characters who aren’t just for gimmick, but to help me and many people out there. Amongst all of my robots/characters, I have to admit that pr0xy is special to me for a reason. His original name is controld which stands for “control daemon”, just like mysqld for MySQL and sshd for SSH.
I gave this name to him because I want to have him as my true, 24/7 personal assistant, like Jarvis except that he’s not female. While Shift and I have been working tirelessly to fix and clear things up on this digital world, pr0xy will be the one who will try to handle your questions, feedbacks, complaints, and so on to us; while making me a better person, too.
How to join?
pr0xy will be first available to an early set of beta testers. For more information, check out my Instagram account for future updates. I still have to fix some other bugs and add new features to allow me and pr0xy to handle millions of messages in the future. I also want to make pr0xy to convince me not to mute/block/ban people, because I, do, believe that banning people is not always the right choice to make.
Of course, I’ll still able to read your full chat history with him, and even better, reply to you (on behalf of me and pr0xy) when he’s running out of answers. You can even directly contribute to his main knowledge base on https://github.com/reinhart1010/pr0xy-scripts to add more questions, answers, jokes, trivia, and so on, as well as the current Python program behind the cyborg account at https://github.com/reinhart1010/pr0xy.
Answering some questions
0. Which languages does pr0xy support?
It could be anything. Since RiveScript, the markup language we are using to encode the knowledge base of pr0xy, technically supports inputs written in multiple languages, we could even support multilingual conversation (e.g. part English, part Indonesian, part Chinese) on the same chat room!
1. Will pr0xy share my personal data to you and others? Do you even have a Privacy Policy?
To address this, yes, I have the sole discretion of reading your chat logs with him. While this might seem frightening to some people, remember that I’m human and as humans we tend to share data to other parties (e.g. families) as well, unless that I’m an actual robot or company who’s under the legal threat of data protection.
Additionally, we believe that Privacy Policy are just legal promises, and as humans we still have the tendency to break them. That’s why we took another step further by making the code publicly available to everyone, from there
If you are asking whether I will share or send your data to someone else, or to another company, the short answer is well, it depends. We’ve taken some precautions against accidentally sharing data into them, including running the server behind pr0xy on my own device.
2. Can I be banned from your cyborg account and pr0xy?
I believe that blocking and banning people is not an option. And sometimes, I’ll need to face it.
What I have instead is the ability to mute for incoming messages from pr0xy to me, so I can focus on things. But you’ll definitely getting answers right where you need it – that’s why cyborg accounts like pr0xy exists!
3. Will pr0xy be able to handle our secret jobs?
Yes, and that’s one of the goals I want to achieve with pr0xy and my other robots. However, since he’s quite new here, it may take some time for him to have a proper knowledge base for that.
While many of pr0xy’s knowledge base will be open for public, the software running behind pr0xy will still be able to process private knowledge base altogether. So please, don’t worry about that.
4. How about Shiftine and alt1e? I heard that pr0xy is having a crush with alt1e.
Currently I have no intentions to deprecate them, and they will still be working for us. Speaking about pr0xy’s relation with alt1e, I currently have nothing to comment about them as long as they’re still happy. ‘Cause just like me, robots still deserve to be happy at all times.
5. I’m part of a big family where you came from. Can I trust pr0xy as part of our family, too?
Sure, and even more than that, feel welcome to treat and trust all my robots as part of our big family, too! At the end, I really want to give pr0xy and all of my robots as a gratitude towards everyone in my life. You have done everything for me, and now, with my robots, I want to bring the best of us to you.
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