[{"role": "user", "content": "I'm planning a trip to Italy and I need to know how to greet locals properly. Can you help me translate 'How are you?' into Italian?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "When speaking to someone you don't know, or to show respect, you can use the formal form 'Come state?' which indeed means 'How are you?' If you want to use the informal form with friends, you can say 'Come stai?' but 'Come state?' is safer when interacting with locals you don't know."}]