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Interesting. Although "if she's smiling at you, she likes you" seems like it wouldn't hold true when you're trying to flirt with acquaintances.
With people you already know, the kinds of indirect signals (where if the recipient isn't interested they can just pretend to not notice and nothing bad happens) are different (and not all of them are entirely non-verbal), but otherwise the same kind-of applies.
Do you know what these indirect signals are? This seems like useful information.
I think I know it when I see them (at least some of the time -- there might be more of them that I'm not noticing), but I can't think of a good intensional description of them (and it doesn't seem polite to me to point at extensional examples based on actual people, even in anonymized form).
It probably also depends on what common knowledge exists or does not exist among the two of you, incl. what culture you're in.