I sort of know what you mean. Not necessarily to combat loneliness but I listen to pretty much every Sherlock Holmes pastiche available via audiobook. Many of them aren't particularly great in and of themselves but there are a sufficiently large number of them and it's nice to check in with the same characters/setting. "Comfy" is the popular term for it. I certainly imagine AI will be capable of producing stories of that sort of quality within the next decade or so. And AI voice actors will be equal to at least some of the narrators on Audible.