Customizing Discobot for your site

[wendellverli (Wendell Fernandes)]

Thanks, I figure would be best to have a model trained to act in character according to your forum, just would not even know where to begin to do that

[Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency)]

This might be if interest

Discourse Chatbot

I just tested Chatbot with the default brand new 3B llama3.2 locally and I must say it’s INCREDIBLE. Tools appear to work and it’s very fast. [The image shows a screenshot of a chatbot conversation, where a user has asked about the root of the number 65. (Captioned by AI)] Great work Meta! This is a fantastic option for development or experimentation at low cost or where you have limited internet. Settings: [This image shows a screenshot of a chatbot interface with three different chatb…

[TempAccount]

Is it at all possible to add or extend existing prompts to discobot?

@codinghorror

Although you can’t (yet) build your own interactive narratives, every single bit of text in the narrative can also be customized from Admin, Customize, Text:

This was in 2017. It has been 8 years, any support (be official or custom)?

If there’s no support, has anyone shared workarounds that may be helpful?

Edit: by prompts i mean “I currently know how to do the following things”

[Isla (Technologically clueless)]

Following along re this

[TempAccount]

Honestly, it’s not so much that I/we need to use Discobot. It’s just “easier” because it is an existing bot on the forum.

But I’ll create a designated new user to be a bot for all i care…

[HAWK]

It’s still not possible, I’m afraid. We are not actively developing Discobot.

[stephtara (Stephanie Booth)]

@Discourse

You can reuse existing variables in messages (like %{title}), but you cannot add new ones.

So does this mean we can only use %{title} and %{base_url} and that’s it when customising a message? I’m working on personalising my messages and I’d like to be able to address the person by name for example, or display the contents of one of the custom user fields they filled in on sign-up.

Is there a way to do this? Or am I trying to twist Discobot into something it’s not and there is a way to automate a more personalised welcome message to new users where I can display that information?