~Talkbot

Urbit's first ever talkbot. Say hello to ~talkbot in chat! It tries to be useful, but doesn't do the dishes.

The current code is not reference quality. It's decent, but uses old syntax and is a bit roundabout in places.

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Functionality

When responding to a message, ~talkbot tries to use the message's audience. For complex audiences this does not yet work well. (It has a special case for the different urbit-meta channels, always sending replies to ~binzod/urbit-meta if the audience includes any official urbit-meta channel.)

• Does various bits of chit-chat.
• Provides page titles and other URL metadata.
• Can perform functionality on command.

Commands

• ping Replies with "Pong."
• !ping Measures round-time to caller by using |hi.
• !ignoreme To have ~talkbot ignore your messages.
• !unignoreme (or ~noticeme) to make ~talkbot respond to your messages again.
• !chopra Posts a fake Deepak Chopra quote.
• !quote Posts a quote overheard on Urbit.

Future features

• Automatically post about new issues and pull requests in Urbit repositories.
• Short-form explanations for runes and terms.
• So much more.

Contributing

Pull requests welcome!

License

~Talkbot's source code is available under the GNU General Public License v3.0.