Discourse Chatbot 🤖

Two of them are listed on the Topic List Previews component Topic.

But they are not really set up as demos for this plugin so you may find the functionality limited or missing as a new user.

I would encourage you to go ahead and set it up on your instance. It doesn’t take that long.

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Great I will look into it thank you Merefield

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Meta has just released their new Llama 4 models.

Chatbot is capable of using them.

I’m using www.groq.com for this (no affiliation) which has already deployed their scout model :rocket:

(remember to supply their key).

(NB I wouldn’t yet recommend this in production if you are using Embeddings as that is only supported for OpenAI).

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It’s getting exhausting keeping up with OpenAI :sweat_smile:

https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/

https://openai.com/index/introducing-o3-and-o4-mini/

Release “1.4.12”

But I’ve updated Chatbot with support for these models (actually mostly a bugfix for reasoning models and updates to the model selections).

  • note that if you use reasoning, the new setting, chatbot_open_ai_model_reasoning_level, to influence amount of reasoning (reasoning models only). The higher the setting, the cleverer it gets, but watch those tokens and make sure you increase Chatbot max response tokens or you may get an error.

  • The reasoning models should now work with RAG properly.

  • If you intend to use the excellent gpt-4.1-nano make sure you activate the setting Chatbot API supports name attribute in order to get sensible responses.

  • If you use the new GPT 4.1 models, the context lengths can now be insane so you can increase the Chatbot max look behind to a large number

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After the last update, the artificial intelligence does not listen to the prompt explanation. I did not change my settings, my chatbot type setting is: basic

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can you rephrase that? what do you mean by “prompt explanation”? do you mean the system prompt?

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No matter, I see the issue, thanks for the report @ozkn

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Fix:

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Release “1.5.0”

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Release 1.5.2

Now for something a little different:

Inspired by @Don’s AI Post Analyzer for Chat, I’ve built a similar but, with the benefit of a back-end, slightly more involved solution for Chatbot (NB @Don’s Theme Component is not compatible with Chatbot).

If this feature is enabled (via setting chatbot quick access bot post kicks off), you can now click on a bot icon in the top-right of a Post and the bot will start talking to you in private about the Post and its recent history.

It works in both Chat and Private Messages basically using the medium you select for quick launch generally (in settings).

This release also comes with a really important fix to make sure that the DM Chat with Chatbot opens at the very bottom of the conversation so you don’t have to occasionally scroll. Really there should probably be a related PR to the Chat plugin to fix this for this kind of scenario …

NB Because this is a complex new system, it’s marked “Experimental” and default OFF.

Credit to @Don for the great idea.

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Can’t find it :thinking:

Did you enable the feature? It’s default OFF.

Of course I did :smirking_face:

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Any errors in the console?

This is on a system updated today:

and another:

I’ll pick this up in private so we don’t spam the main Topic.

Release 1.5.3

Significant improvements to Post launch, with the button moving to the Post Button Menu:

  • IMPROVE: Post launch button moves the the Post Button Menu
  • IMPROVE: Chat kick-off message location and overrides refined.
  • IMPROVE: Annoying console warning removed.
  • IMPROVE: styling - there is now once again, only one chatbot-btn id :blush:
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