AI for selected text is to allow users to ask questions given a selected text without discontinuing the main thread reading.
The current response from any LLMs is to respond a user’s questions in one shot even some LLM may have follow-up hints about what further can be explored.
After my question, the LLM responded as much as possible but not overwhelmingly lengthy. Even a user can instruct LLM to produce a very succinct response, there may be some keywords in the current LLM’s response intriguing users to dive deeper regardless of how succinct the content is that LLM created. For example, I want to know more about what Fixed-Width Integers are in the image below before reading the whole content. What I can do it now is to create a following prompt like What are Fixed-Width Integers and surly LLM can answer my sub questions well.
However, if I want to ask sub questions by creating another prompts to jump off current LLM’s whole content, this is something affecting my user experience not in a satisfying way. Why? I just want to get an quick idea what a keyword is and at the same time I don’t to want to leave the main content. Second, my subquestion may create more subquestions, which led me to create more prompts. Of course, I can scroll up back to original first few answers LLM created before. However, I felt scrolling up UI back to first few content is sometime tedious especially if I created many subquestions. In the end to address the long scrolling the UI, I just asked questions I asked before. This is how I felt the discontinuation of reading experience before I read the whole the content.
To address the issue, I hope the LLM explains what it is for the text I selected without even prompts provided like picture below. Of course, I can provide more prompts for further clarifications in the pop-up UI. With such a design, I still stay at the main thread and at the same to ask sub questions to clarify some concepts.
This may help a lot especially when learning new stuff since there could be more keywords I want to clarify before continuing my reading for the main content.
My suggestion is basically just the UI design.