Follow up

Follow-up on an answer

Letting people select text to ask follow-up questions provides immediate, context-specific information, enhancing AI interaction and exploration.

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Human needs

When I select text, I want to ask follow-up questions to get immediate, context-specific information, so I can explore and understand the topic more deeply.

AI-UX patterns
Considerations
  • Targeted Questions through Text Selection: Text selection enables people to ask targeted questions about specific terms or phrases.
  • Customized Follow-up Prompts: If you select something, it enables the system to offer customized follow-up prompts, helping people to explore further.

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Incentivize giving feedback

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Evolving outputs

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Realtime voice interfaces

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Spatial Prompting

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