P: Customize keyboard shortcut for creating a new layer

It appears that Alt works as a hard-coded modifier for several shortcuts. If I re-map the Layers>New>Layer... menu item to Ctrl-N (without Shift), the shortcut for New Layer Without Dialog changes to Alt-Ctrl-N. It would be great to be able to map this function to a simpler combination though. 

I'm a little late to the party...

An installed script can create a new layer without a dialog, which can have a custom keyboard shortcut applied.

I know that this has come up before in a different topic, I'll see if I can dig it up...

EDIT:

Not exactly the topic I was thinking of – https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/copying-the-layer/m-p/14090141

Here is a script:

#target photoshop

makeNewLayer();

function makeNewLayer() {
	function s2t(s) {
        return app.stringIDToTypeID(s);
    }
	var descriptor = new ActionDescriptor();
	var reference = new ActionReference();
	reference.putClass( s2t( "layer" ));
	descriptor.putReference( s2t( "null" ), reference );
	executeAction( s2t( "make" ), descriptor, DialogModes.NO );
}

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

@David Mohr

Wrong answer due to not unerstanding the question's need and intention.
We all know what you offer as an answer, Photoshop has no way to avoid the NEW LAYER POPOUP via assigning a Keyboard Shortcut, that's the problem:   AVOIDING THE PPOPUP just like the Panel's icon+dropdown does.
See? and I'm not even a native english speaker.

I'd like to add my voice to this request. It seems utterly absurd to me that some commands, options, or tools are "invisible" to keyboard shortcuts. (And I am filled with crazed longing at the thought of Oliver's dream of just being able to hit N for a new layer!)

@Polyculture69 I totally agree, the scope of the KBSC is limited to the functions explicitely shown in the menus.

IMHO, it should work also with the functions that are not listed, or available in the interface with a modifier.
This is too limiting. 

We also need to be able to search in that menu: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-search-field-in-keyboard-shortcuts-dialog/idi-p/12249525
And, FYI, there is a semi-hidden way to add a layer below the current one, that you might already know about -but other users might not- : CMD+click the add new layer button in the layers panel. 

(here is a FR to have it work on adjustment layers;: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/creating-adjustment-layers-below-the-active-one/idi-p/11927305 )

@David Mohr  Hi, David, how are you doing?

This is just one of many cases of Photoshop shortcuts that cannot be customized...

I beg to differ about your statement "There are no shortcuts or commands for creating a new layer or document without a dialog.  That doesn't exist." 

The function does exist in Photoshop, in at least two locations :

1) If you hold alt+click the menu Layer>New>Layer... or use the ALT+CMD+SHIFT+N shortcut that the users want to change

2) Or if you click on the "create new layer" button at the bottom of the layers panel. This function contradicts your "Creating option opens a dialog to make sure that the user wants all the current parameters." (that said, you can get a menu if you hold alt and click on that button)

But there could be hundreds of FRs for the many unshorcutable functions of Ps: create a new layer under the current one (CMD+click the new layer button) I don't know how the KBSC editor could encompass all those needs, but it is frustrating to have a tool supposed to help pro users be limited in what it can do.

it is very frustrating can't change the "New Layer without dialog"

This is also true for me. In general, I believe that no problem would arise if the developers adhered to the rule: if there is a function or tool, they should be able to assign hotkeys. If there is a function that works in some other way (for example, bypassing the opening of dialog boxes). I don't understand why I can't assign an alternate keyboard shortcut to a function that works this way. After all, this problem, in my opinion, arose precisely for this reason.