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Features only an engineer could think of. i can imagine clicking even once on the preset responses and then receiving a barrage of curses from the other side f

by profeta 10y ago

Features only an engineer could think of. i can imagine clicking even once on the preset responses and then receiving a barrage of curses from the other side from having used it.

NathanKP 10y ago
I use suggested responses on Inbox all the time. People tend to send lots of email that only needs a one line response, and the suggested responses of "Thanks for confirming", "That time works for me", etc. are perfect. Likewise in social messaging apps there are a lot of "transactional" style conversations where you need to confirm receiving the text message with some expected response. In an instant messaging program these bot suggested responses will work fine for all the one line responses like "cya soon!", "looking forward to it!" , and even "I love you too!" If anything bot suggested responses mean that the longer form less vanilla text messages you type out are more meaningful. It will encourage people to send stuff that isn't so basic and trivial that a bot can form an adequate response.
- tdkl 10y ago
  Email messages you describe are formal and generic replies can be useful. But hitting canned replies to my friends and spouse is a bit sad.
  - SlashmanX 10y ago
    That's why Google 'learns' your writing style and adjusts the responses to match your way of messaging.
  - NathanKP 10y ago
    The way I see it there are two types of messages to friends and spouse. There is the silly little stuff like "Check out this cute dog!" and if Google suggests "Awwww!" as a response, and that was pretty much what I was going to type out anyway then I'll just hit the "canned reply". If its a serious message though like someone telling me that their relative is in the hospital I'm probably not going to hit an automatic reply like "Sorry to hear that", I'm going to type out a longer message.

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Features only an engineer could think of. i can imagine clicking even once on the preset responses and then receiving a barrage of curses from the other side f

by profeta 10y ago

Features only an engineer could think of. i can imagine clicking even once on the preset responses and then receiving a barrage of curses from the other side from having used it.

NathanKP 10y ago
I use suggested responses on Inbox all the time. People tend to send lots of email that only needs a one line response, and the suggested responses of "Thanks for confirming", "That time works for me", etc. are perfect. Likewise in social messaging apps there are a lot of "transactional" style conversations where you need to confirm receiving the text message with some expected response. In an instant messaging program these bot suggested responses will work fine for all the one line responses like "cya soon!", "looking forward to it!" , and even "I love you too!" If anything bot suggested responses mean that the longer form less vanilla text messages you type out are more meaningful. It will encourage people to send stuff that isn't so basic and trivial that a bot can form an adequate response.
- tdkl 10y ago
  Email messages you describe are formal and generic replies can be useful. But hitting canned replies to my friends and spouse is a bit sad.
  - SlashmanX 10y ago
    That's why Google 'learns' your writing style and adjusts the responses to match your way of messaging.
  - NathanKP 10y ago
    The way I see it there are two types of messages to friends and spouse. There is the silly little stuff like "Check out this cute dog!" and if Google suggests "Awwww!" as a response, and that was pretty much what I was going to type out anyway then I'll just hit the "canned reply". If its a serious message though like someone telling me that their relative is in the hospital I'm probably not going to hit an automatic reply like "Sorry to hear that", I'm going to type out a longer message.