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by catchnear4321 833 days ago
to interrupt would require interruptible conversation. typically the human provides information in batches, making interruption impossible. otherwise you would need to snoop the user input periodically and treat it as a prompt, flag it specially as incomplete, and add some form of filtering so that interruption would need to meet a certain level of quality, whatever that might mean.

to be useful, it would need something to interrupt, and instruction on what warrants an interruption.

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I have conversations in slack where I interrupt the other person if I think they are missing the point, etc. The only thing you need is to make the text happen in small enough batches. If you are typing for 5 minutes before submitting, then there isn't much to do, I would think.
then it isn’t interrupting, it is redirecting.

at best you see the dots because they type, but you are acting on the responses you already have. not the one that is in-flight.

fundamentally different from spoken word.