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> Always cuts me off.

In my sci-fi novel, when characters speak with their home automation system, they always have to follow the same format: "Tau, <insert request here>, please." It's that "please" at the end that solves the stopped speaking problem.

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Honestly, that makes a lot of sense haha

What's funny is that we even have a widely popularized version of this in the form of prowords[0] like "OVER" and "ROGER"

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_word


Dang that just planted the visual in my head of talking to AI over walkie talkie. Not a bad interface. Push to talk, if it takes a few seconds or even a few minutes for a response to come back, not a big deal.




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