Can Discourse AI Suggest Relevant Topics and Send Private Messages to Users Based on Their Queries?

Yes, you could use a AI bot - Personas to assist users by responding to their queries and guiding them to relevant topics or information.

Personas are a feature within Discourse AI that allow you to highly customize the behavior of the AI and tailor its responses based on specific user needs:

  • You can configure a persona to handle the “search” command, enabling it to look for and suggest relevant topics within your forum.
  • The search functionality can also be restricted or expanded based on permissions or specific personas.
  • Users can interact with the persona via:
    • Private messages (PMs)
    • Chat direct messages (DMs)
    • Mentioning the persona in topics or channels
  • This means the persona can send private messages to users, such as a list of suggested topics based on their query.
  • You can customize a persona using the “system prompt” to guide its behavior, like instructing it to identify and share relevant forum threads upon specific triggers.
  • Advanced options, such as filters and specific chunking, allow you to fine-tune its search capabilities.
  • If you upload relevant documents or indexes, the persona can use them to provide even more context-aware replies.

Detailed settings for search and other commands can be customized for your persona, and you can refer to the AI bot documentation to configure this on your site.

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