AI to warm up, people for the real thing
German AI before conversation
If you jump straight into a group and stall, you stay away three days. Better ten minutes of AI, the same line, then the door.
AI forgives repetition. People do too, but you only believe it once the tongue is warm.
I set the AI to the same topic as the round. Otherwise the warm-up is a different sport.
The other way around works if you are already loose. Nerves know the order.