wlandgraf requested a feature in Discourse AI to generate draft replies for new posts via a button (e.g., “Draft response”), allowing moderators to review and edit before posting — a manual, selective alternative to AI Triage’s automatic replies. awesomerobot confirmed this feature doesn’t currently exist, noting AI Triage can post publicly but still lacks user control, and suggested using an AI bot in chat as a partial workaround. They proposed adding a “generate reply” option to the existing AI toolbar button, which currently focuses on editing user-written text. wlandgraf agreed this would be the ideal solution. sam indicated the feature is coming soon — within a couple of months — as part of upcoming work by @Falco’s team to integrate AI personas, which will enable wiring AI actions (like generating replies) to specific personas, making such a feature naturally possible.
I want to accomplish something with Discourse AI that is very simple and, in my opinion, common usage, but I couldn’t find a way to do it.
Whenever somebody creates a new post (in a new topic or an existing topic), our moderators need to reply to that topic.
All I want is a button like “Draft response” or “Create answer,” so that AI will generate a reply to that topic in the reply editor. Then I want to review it to make sure it’s correct, modify it if needed, then click Reply.
That’s all. The only similar feature I found is using AI Triage to automatically create whisper posts. But that’s not exactly the same — I want to choose which topics to reply to, and I don’t want my topics flooded with duplicated whispered and public posts.
Am I missing something, or is this feature not available?
AI Triage doesn’t have to be a whisper, it can also be a public post, but it’s still automatic so it doesn’t suit your request for a button. So you’re correct in that there’s not currently a feature like this.
You could also create an AI bot that you can ask to generate a response in chat, which looks like this:
I suppose a natural place like this would be our AI toolbar button, we could consider adding a “generate reply” option here… currently this is more focused on editing what you’ve written.
I think we need to wait a tiny bit here, we will be able to get this done quite naturally in a couple of months
@Falco and team are shifting helper to lean on personas, part of the work could be allowing an AI helper action to wire to a specific persona, with that in place we could certainly build something like this
