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I don't know, I don't mind someone telling me about a dream, if it's not too long. It can be interesting or funny.

As always, when one says something, they need to check that the public they have is interested and the public must give cues about how they receive the thing. Of course it doesn't always work well, but this could concern any topic.

Definitely don't share your AI chat with me though, I can sustain a poker face and politeness only for so long, after that I will probably need to complain, vent or practice sarcasm.

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I remember reading a book a long time back, titled something like "non-linguistic analysis of call center conversations".

One main takeaway from the book was that "you can just look at the ratio of turn-taking duration, and which speaker/participant is spending how much time" to decide "what happened in the conversation".

The same goes for AI-generated conversations; verbose responses are the default behavior, and models are incentivised to keep that output-token ratio. Too easy to catch/notice, pretty annoying.

PS - I work in the Conversational AI space, and it is quite an effort to keep the ratio right for people to stay long enough on the phone with AI agents.

> ... or practice sarcasm

On the plus side, it gets easier with practice.

Sorry, my English was approximative, I meant that I would need to be sarcastic.

But yeah, it does.

Of course, sarcasm always works out great with people who don't already get that they are boring you to death with a long monologue...

Your english was correct; I believe the reply was humorously misinterpreting your meaning (it might even qualify as sarcastic).

Bingo.

Your usage of “practice” was correct, but the commenter was making a joke based on the other connotation of “practice”, in the sense of repeatedly doing something to improve.

Your English was fine. I was just playing along by being sarcastic in return. :)

I wondered. Sorry :-)

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