Show HN: Quiet – exploring when an AI assistant should intervene
A developer has shared a prototype called Quiet, which explores the timing of AI assistant interventions. The tool uses live, scripted interactions to demonstrate how an assistant might respond to user hesitation. It is designed to test interaction design concepts rather than the underlying intelligence of an AI model.
- ▪The prototype named Quiet is a scripted interaction that reacts live to user hesitation without using a pre-recorded video.
- ▪It presents four distinct situations from a thesis, each answered in a different format such as a pointer, note, card, or drawing.
- ▪The project explicitly states that there is no AI model behind the responses, as the answers are hand-written.
- ▪The primary goal of the prototype is to test the interaction design and intervention timing rather than the intelligence of the system.
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| Original publisher | Pages |
| Canonical URL | https://quiet-hci.pages.dev |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:51:11 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T18:12:02.121Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T18:12:02.121Z |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Hesitate, and see what it does. Nothing is pre-recorded: it reacts live to what you do. Four situations taken from the thesis, each answered in a different form — a pointer, a note, a card, a drawing. Scripted interaction prototype — no AI model behind it. The hesitation signals are real; the answers are hand-written to test the interaction, not the intelligence.
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