alt Hacker NewsI think I recall that Google did exactly this with their telephone bot (Google assistant?), sneaking in very natural sounding "um"s here and there to mask processing/network latency.
I think I recall that Google did exactly this with their telephone bot (Google assistant?), sneaking in very natural sounding "um"s here and there to mask processing/network latency.
That's actually... clever and fair enough. That's what we use them for, too.