Hello Discourse community, Hope you’re all doing great! I’ve set up a chatbot with an AI persona (LLM GPT-4 Omni-Mini), and it’s been working wonders! :tada: But, I’ve noticed that customer interactions are pretty low. Right now, to chat with the bot, they have to click on this little robot icon i…

Hello @Angela_MRS :waving_hand: i have a custom “ask the bot” link in the sidebar on my forum: [IMG_3603]

Thanks Lilly, that’s a very good idea! it wouldn’t really work for our forum, I’ve removed the side bar, thinking of making it less crowded… I may bring it back if I cannot find another workaround :sweat_smile:

you can put it in the drop down menu then if you are using that instead of sidebar.

Absolutely, I will do that :wink:

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Thanks a lot for your suggestions Lily, I’ve managed to add the button on top of the categories, and it works perfect… [This image shows a screenshot of the MR Solutions Hub, featuring a chat option labeled "MRS Helper: Start a conversation." (Captioned by AI)] Obivously, I wouldn’t mind scaling …

After some research here and there, chat GPT helped me -almost- reach my goal :partying_face: I added the button as Lily suggested, and also spent quite some time reading on alternatives here and there. After all I just asked ChatGPT to help me write the code to create such button, or actually a fl…

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Lilly May 13, 2025, 2:18pm 8

use /discourse-ai/ai-bot/conversations for the button URL and you can put it where ever you want.

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