Let bot interrupt conversation

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1

It is related to my previous question but I would like to separate them so as not to mix issues (Chatbot interface) Can a bot interrupt the user?

Example of a conversation:

(11:22) User:Hello
(11:22) Bot: Hello, how can I help you?
(11:23) User: What will the weather be like today?
(11:23) Bot: It will rain this afternoon.
(Stands by on hold)
(14:12) Bot: It's already raining.
(14:13) User: Will it rain for a long time?
(14:13) Bot: Yes, it will be raining for about three hours

I know how to do the first part, until the bot takes the initiative, but I don’t know how to continue.

Any ideas, suggestions, pages that can help me?

Thank you!

2

How do you know when it’s raining?

Whatever the answer is, when it’s raining, you should trigger the Rasa REST API which will itself trigger an action.

In endpoints.yml add:

action_endpoint:
 url: "http://localhost:5055/webhook"

and in credentials.yml add:

rest:

rasa:
  url: "http://localhost:5002/api"

Then you just POST a JSON with the following format to http://localhost:5055/webhook/

{
    "next_action": action_notify_raining,
    "sender_id": id_of_the_user_you_want_to_notify
}
3

I don’t quite know what you mean by you should trigger the Rasa REST API. I know action but class ActionHelloWorld(Action), that’s not what you mean, right?

And what exactly do you mean by you just POST a JSON with the following format to `http://localhost:5055/webhook/?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge but I am new to this and I have not found any information that clarifies things for me.

4

If you don’t know what REST, HTTP API, and POST mean, please look at this tutorial:

5

thank you I will see it

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