I have been thinking about the paradigm of "commands" in programming, and whether softer/more 'polite' language could improve the machine UI
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"if you could, would you open this text file and tell me if the contents have this string?"
I mean yes exactly - when you get a no here it's pretty much fine. Vs "your syntax is wrong and you're wrong, nothing works"
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yeah. I think, if you're looking for more than syntactic changes to command-response,...
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...you're going to need a host of addl intelligence, to state an objective, not a series of actions to complete it?
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