Optional Word Formatting in GUI sentence triggers

[clear schooner]

When using strictly the GUI for automation programming, is there a way to clean this up so I can have optional or missing words and still trigger my actions without having to write out every permutation?

[stone belfry]

I'm hoping this becomes a feature. I couldn't even find anything promising about possibly using manual event triggers. I don't want to have to put even more handwritten stuff into yaml files using the file editor just to have a command with optional words. At the same time, I don't want to have to enter all fifteen possible ways I could say "pause the air conditioner for a little bit" since I could said AC, air conditioner, air conditioning, or even cooling. Not to mention, a little bit can be phrased as a bit, a while, a few, etc.

https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/automation/trigger/#sentence-trigger This page shows something to this effect, but I think it's only for if you're using a trigger for a custom sensor that you'd write into a yaml file yourself. It would be nice to be able to format the same way it suggests here.

Use brackets for optional words. Example:
turn on the Air Conditioner[ please]

Or have multiple choices of a phrase wrapped in paranthesis with each choice separated by a pipe. example
turn on the (air conditioner|air conditioning|a c|cooler)

I tried putting in this kind of stuff using the YAML editor, but it if you go back to the visual editor, you just get back "null".

[wind lodge]

This is already a feature... and you don't need to switch the YAML to use the hassil templates:

[stone belfry]

I gave it a shot, and commands with this kind of formatting don't seem to work half the time.

[restive kayak]

It’s probably not quite the same thing but I’ve had some success exposing scripts to OpenAI and having it call them. Got to set a decent description but for a simple script without parameters it should be simple. No isea if your using OpenAI though…

[stone belfry]

Nah, I'm avoiding Open AI