<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Assistant on Ergophobia</title><link>https://ergophobia.org/tags/assistant/</link><description>Recent content in Assistant on Ergophobia</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ergophobia.org/tags/assistant/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>spanish-academy — week of 2026-07-20</title><link>https://ergophobia.org/updates/2026-07-27-spanish-academy/</link><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate><guid>https://ergophobia.org/updates/2026-07-27-spanish-academy/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;A short week, all of it on the conversational assistant.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;The biggest fix was language handling. The assistant had been deciding what&#10;language to answer in largely by inference inside the prompt, which drifted when&#10;a customer switched mid-thread. I moved detection into code and run it on every&#10;turn, so the reply follows the customer&amp;rsquo;s most recent message rather than the&#10;tone the conversation opened with.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>