voice agents should know you even before your first interaction

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Summary

Developer built a Pipecat plugin integrating Onairos preference model to preload user profiles before voice agent interactions, reducing time-to-useful from 3 minutes to 1:30 by eliminating warmup discovery questions.

Ycombinator had their agents hackathon recently and that inspired me to build this solution. The thing that bugs me about voice agents: the first 60-90 seconds is warmup questions figuring out who you are. By the time it's useful, you've checked out. Wired up our preference model (Onairos) as a Pipecat plugin. At session start it pulls a user profile and injects a structured preference summary into the system context before the first turn. Agent opens the call already knowing communication style, domain familiarity, interests and skips most of the discovery loop. Rough numbers from test runs : * Time-to-useful: \~3 min → \~1:30 * Warmup questions: 10-20 → 4-8 Happy to get into the integration details or where you think it breaks.
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