Comment by medi8r
11 hours ago
Maybe we have a keyword to say we are done talking. Like "over to you". This may be better as it gives you thinking time.
Even a minute if you need it!
And you can get the agent to crunch when you are ready.
Imagine you speak. you need to look something up. find it. speak some more. then "over to you!"
The agent doesn't have to behave like a human and figure out when to butt in.
After all chat rooms and Slack also have realtime 2 way but we didn't worry about emulating that in agent chat. We can be convention breaking in agentic voice chat too.
One thing you can get the LLM to do is to call a "skip turn" tool, which will basically trigger the system to wait without saying anything. Then all it will take is clever prompting to get the desired result.