alt Hacker NewsI think chat is a great entry point for many experiences. The approachability and flexibility are unmatched.
A question becomes, how do you evolve a chat experience to task specific actions?
I’m building an app to explore scripture. Chat is an amazing starting point. But it’s terrible once you get into reading the actual scripture.
I think we will see more of this in the future. Here is how I’ve envisioned evolving an experience out of chat. Curious if others have their own ideas.
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For me personally, the effort to type on a mobile phone is too much. If I can't complete an interaction with maybe two sentences, I much much prefer typing on a computer, and if required, copy everything over.
I like this way of branching and adding context for the user. It would be interesting to make it more generalizable to other texts.
"I think chat is a great entry point for many experiences. The approachability and flexibility are unmatched."
Just wait a few months/years and then some smartasses will come with a novel approach nobody ever has thought of before. Let's call it "context menus". They will give rapid access to the most used features without the tedious typing.
Until MacOS 27 the text context menus had items "Writing Tools" and "Proofread". Quick and efficient. MacOS has dropped these items and replaced with "Ask Siri". Now I have to type "proofread" every time and pray Siri agrees that it should proofread the selected text. Once it has done that, do i have to type "replace"? I don't even know.
There is a reason why UIs became popular. Command lines are fine but hard to discover and tedious to use. With AI it's even worse. You can't know for sure the AI interprets your commands in the way you intended.