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WICG / writing-assistance-apis

A proposal for writing assistance web APIs: summarizer, writer, and rewriter
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Explain benefits over the Prompt API or a chat API #8

Closed scblaze closed 1 week ago

scblaze commented 1 week ago

The Explainer for these API's mentions the Prompt API: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/prompt-api/

However, there isn't really an explanation of why these higher level API's are preferable to a Prompt API interface. It would be helpful to add it.

As a developer, I can't help but feel that these higher-level APIs seem much more restrictive and less useful compared to a general Prompt API. It seems like this higher-level functionality would make more sense to leave to library authors and that browsers should focus on lower level building blocks like an instruct-type Prompt API or maybe even a chat API.

domenic commented 1 week ago

The explainer does cover this: https://github.com/WICG/writing-assistance-apis/blob/main/README.md#directly-exposing-a-prompt-api :)