Good question. This is something I ended up wondering about later. I had just said “hello” out of habit, not thinking about it.
It does in fact affect the outcome, though. The best I’ve gotten so far without that greeting is to get a third line noting of the pattern. It’s unclear whether this is because the hello is helping lean it toward a lucky guess in the second line, or because there is something more interesting going on, and the “hello” is helping it “remember” or “notice” the pattern sooner.
Out of morbid curiosity, does it get this less often when the initial “hello” in this sentence as removed?
Good question. This is something I ended up wondering about later. I had just said “hello” out of habit, not thinking about it.
It does in fact affect the outcome, though. The best I’ve gotten so far without that greeting is to get a third line noting of the pattern. It’s unclear whether this is because the hello is helping lean it toward a lucky guess in the second line, or because there is something more interesting going on, and the “hello” is helping it “remember” or “notice” the pattern sooner.