AI bot - Chat and PM integration

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:bookmark: This guide explains how to integrate AI bot - Agents into your chat and personal message (PM) experience.

:person_raising_hand: Required user level: Administrator

Configuring chat and PM for Agents

:information_source: In order to integrate with chat or topic mentions, an agent must have a User created and have a Default Language Model selected.

  1. Enable Allow Personal Messages, this will allow users to send PMs to the agent.

  2. Enable Allow Topic Mentions, this will allow users in allowed groups to mention this agent in topics.

  3. Enable Allow Chat Direct Messages, this will allow the user agent to receive direct messages (DMs).

  4. Enable Allow Chat Channel Mentions, this will allow users in allowed groups to mention this agent in chat channels.

Tips for configuring chat agents

When configuring an agent for chat, keep the following tips in mind:

  • Max Context Posts: Chat messages tend to be short, so consider increasing the Max Context Posts setting to a higher number for agents focused on mentions. This will allow the AI to maintain more context from previous messages.

  • Default LLM and User: Chat and topic mentions can only be enabled on an agent if you enable both a default LLM (language model) and user. Make sure to properly configure these settings.

  • PM-based Features: All features available for PM-based agents are also available for chat agents. However, the optional advanced debugging information displayed in PMs is not shown in chat.

Auditing chat interactions

Auditing chat interactions can be a bit more challenging compared to other methods. However, ai_api_audit_logs will still have full logs of all chat interactions. You can query these logs using the Data Explorer in Discourse.

Chat behavior

When interacting with chat agents, keep the following behavior in mind:

  • DM: A new thread will be unconditionally created for every new message sent to the bot via DM.

  • Channel: When mentioning the bot in a channel, the reply will be added to the current context. If mentioned inside an existing thread, the bot replies within that thread. If mentioned in the main channel, the bot replies directly in the channel.

Last edited by @Saif 2024-11-04T23:39:55Z

Last checked by @hugh 2024-08-06T02:12:37Z

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AI personas integration of the chat plugin: It would be great if site users could chat with AI personas
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A post was split to a new topic: AI Chat not reacting to mentions on renamed users

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This is an amazing plugin and it’s working well. However, I have two issues that I haven’t been able to resolve after any tinkering:

  1. I’m not able to select any default language model. Whenever I try to type in a name it only returns “No matches found”. Therefore I can’t use the chat feature for the persona.
  2. For some reason when interacting with the bot via DM, the images are not uploading (using GPT-4o with vision enabled)

I’d be very thankful for any pointers on these two dilemmas.

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Can you confirm if this is working properly now (be sure to update to latest) we redid how LLMs are configured.

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All fixed. Y’all are seriously the best.

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Hello, can we setup so only allow the bot reply in certain chat channel ? thanks

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Not at the moment, but this is certainly a good idea to add. Keep in mind it only replies on mentions at the moment, so it is quite hidden. Also we respect the permission on the persona so if users don’t have access to the person they will not hear back when they @mention.

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Not sure if it’s worthy of its own topic but it seems like the [grid] is redundant in a chat message with images

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