In each rasa story, we usually start with a intent in the steps. When we run this bot, we need to input text firstly then the bot will react. It seems that we can only define stories in this way. Can we just let the bot to talk firstly? In some application scenario we need this kind of bot. For example, the assistant to help customers to operate machine or buy tickets. The bot should talk first, greet first, or provide some choices for customers, otherwise the customer will be puzzled how to talk to the bot firstly. Is it possible for us to realize this function in rasa? How can we achieve this aim?

[image] atptour: It does not work according to my expectation. Anyway I must input something to trigger ActionSessionStart. It will not run automatically without human’s input. Yup! That’s why I’d rather suggest doing it in your frontend app: To trigger ActionSessionStart, you must start a session! While if you do it in your app, your initial send function will do it on its own by sending a hidden message from the user to the bot. [image] atptour: This means I need to code frontend to simulate to send start message as if a human input, right? Such as a send() function in JavaScript. Exactly :slight_smile: You could do it with any language where you can do HTTP GET and POST requests, not only JavaScript.

Can bot talk firstly in dialogue?

Rasa Open Source

ChrisRahme (Chris Rahmé) October 28, 2021, 10:01am 2

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Can bot talk firstly in dialogue?

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