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by drewzero1 1768 days ago
I agree. If I was a retail store owner, I would absolutely not want a clone to greet people. It betrays my customers trust, one of the last things you want to do in retail customer service.

Instead I would probably hire someone to greet people, if I felt that was what I needed to make my customers feel welcome. (Or maybe I'd have a sign with my name and picture on it and a message to customers, or maybe I'd train existing employees to greet customers while working. Normal retail customer service.)

Going a step farther, if I had that employee pretend to be me, and then customers found out they were not, I would at the very least lose some customers and probably get the reputation that I try to trick people. This is a really neat trick (for now) with the new technology, but like handwriting fonts on junk mail it doesn't play well once people figure it out.