Also got the same error in journalctl:

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● pulseaudio.service - Sound Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pulseaudio.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-04-14 06:43:42 CEST; 2h 20min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pulseaudio.socket
   Main PID: 1277 (pulseaudio)
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/pulseaudio.service
             └─1277 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal

apr 14 06:43:41 thecastles systemd[1271]: Starting Sound Service...
apr 14 06:43:42 thecastles systemd[1271]: Started Sound Service.
apr 14 08:59:35 thecastles pulseaudio[1277]: ALSA woke us up to write new data 
to the device, but there was actually nothing to write.
apr 14 08:59:35 thecastles pulseaudio[1277]: Most likely this is a bug in the 
ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
apr 14 08:59:35 thecastles pulseaudio[1277]: We were woken up with POLLOUT set 
-- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

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However, I didn't experience any issue with audio.

Linux 5.8.0-48-generic #54~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Mar 20 13:40:25 UTC 2021 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Ubuntu 20.04.2

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  pulseaudio says: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but
  there was actually nothing to write.

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