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by practice9 2960 days ago
Interesting bot, but I don't understand why would it show only 3 top stories at the start. And saying "advance" after every paragraph is tiring.

As a side note, most of the Assistant bots I've seen are completely useless. Also I find it strange bots don't typically use the voice defined in Assistant options (why???).

Considering how Google is promoting Assistant as innovational tech, why didn't they create several cool "example" bots or partnered with companies which would profit from that?

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Yes, I can improve this but there are some restrictions (they are not too strict but they are): 500 characters per post, 2 posts each time, 8 suggestions...

Having these in mind, in which way would you improve it?

Thank you for your feedback.

Asking user aloud if bot should continue (after hitting a restriction) would be helpful. If I'm not mistaken now it stops reading and doesn't explicitly ask for any input (microphone icon doesn't count). So user has to look at the screen for possible options.

Sometimes I'm doing something else with my hands while listening, so that's one possible use case.

I did some changes based on your observations. I hope you like it
Interesting point, I'll work about it