When an AI Persona has “Allow topic mentions” enabled, it responds in two situations:
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When a user @mentions the bot in a post
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When a user replies to one of the bot’s existing posts
I’d like a way to limit the persona to only respond when explicitly @mentioned, and not respond automatically when someone replies to its post.
Use case: I run an AI bot in a community forum where members discuss topics with each other. Sometimes a member replies to the bot’s post to continue talking to other humans in the thread — not to ask the bot another question. The bot jumping in on every reply creates noise and disrupts the natural conversation flow.
I tried handling this via the system prompt (instructing the persona to only respond when @mentioned), but this doesn’t reliably work — the LLM is already triggered to generate a response by the time it sees the prompt.
Proposed solution: A separate toggle in the persona settings, something like:
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Allow topic mentions (existing) -
Respond only to @mentions (new — when enabled, replies to the bot’s posts would not trigger a response)
Or alternatively, a single setting like “Require @mention to respond in topics” that covers this behavior.
Would love to hear if others have run into this or if there’s a workaround I’m missing. Thanks!