Just don't try to make eye contact with it or talk to it about your relationships 
Seriously, they did a fantastic job adapting it at least as far as the first four episodes go. They nailed it.
It's a Sci-Fi show. You have to have a little thing you talk into to show that you're talking to somebody else.
Really big change that I noticed that I'm surprised didn't bother me was murderbot's lack of drones. I can see how easily they would cut the tension down. I do hope it gets some at some point