Building Custom Bot, How to Make it Speak First

Hello Rasa Community, I am currently building a custom bot that helps with HR around the office, it will go in an internal webpage, so everything is pretty much coded from scratch, save for the CSS framework.

So far for a greeting, I have this successful story:

greeting

  • greet
  • utter_greet
  • utter_provide_help

However, I cannot get the bot to speak first using:

greeting

  • utter_greet
  • utter_provide_help

How do I get it speak first?

Hello @Eli,

I would recommend starting with our tutorial that goes over the initial bot and all the pieces, including the stories to get this working correctly. I would need to see more data around your bot and screenshots of the logs to know what exactly is happening for your bot.

I would check out Getting Started with Rasa and do the rasa init command to create the initial bot project that has a basic hello example to look at and build upon.