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📅 01 October 2026 at 12:30 AM UTC
Show HN: Quiet – exploring when an AI assistant should intervene
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I’m Ruggiero, a CS student working on a research project about humanComputer interaction and AI. I built QUIET because I’ve been thinking about a problem with current AI interfaces: they usually either wait for an explicit prompt, or try to take over a task. I wanted to explore a different relationship between humans and AI: an assistant that can understand when to stay out of the way, when to point something out, when to teach, and when to act. I’ve built a small interactive demo of this idea. It’s obviously still very early, and I want to understand whether the interaction itself makes sense before trying to build the actual AI system behind it. The prototype is intentionally not AI-powered yet. The four examples are scripted so I can test the interaction itself before spending time buil
Publication Reference: https://quiet-hci.pages.dev
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