intermediateSemantic Caching

What's a risk of setting the semantic-cache similarity threshold too loosely?

Two queries that are similar in wording but meaningfully different in intent (e.g. 'cancel my subscription' vs 'pause my subscription') could be treated as a cache hit and served the wrong cached answer, which is worse than a cache miss — a slightly stricter threshold trades some cache-hit rate for correctness.

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