Hello humans and others, I’ve developed a Slackbot which answers questions based on previous slack history. If somebody has already answered the question in the past, the bot can respond automatically and link to the original discussion. In a community like this, it could help people get answers to their common questions sooner. Would you be interested in giving it a try?

Sounds like a godsend for this workspace

Awesome! Can you get an admin to install it: https://www.yentabot.ai/secret-install Just a big button on that site, and then you need to invite it to any channels you want it to listen to

I think it's worth mentioning it's planned to be a paid service

Oh! I'm hoping to make a business out of it, but if this Slack is successfully using it, I can provide it for free forever. You're helping me out by giving me a place to try it out and make it better

that's fair, I just think it's important to disclose those intentions and context

Sounds similar to jb pricing model. Fair is fair.

Thanks, I'll change the way I present it going forward. Making a note....

Is it possible to limit it to a few channels to begin with?

@hhariri yup, it only exists in the individual channels you invite it to.

Sure. WE can try it. @Alina Dolgikh [JB] was thinking of adding it to #ktor

Awesome! The install link is here: https://www.yentabot.ai/install Once installed, just invite @Yentabot to a channel

@Jonah Stiennon Added. We can add it to #Ktor, but it would be good to introduce the idea to folks. Do you have a short text snippet to make people understand what it is?

Awesome! How about this: Yentabot is a Slackbot which answers questions by referencing the history of your Slack workspace. If you ask Yentabot a question, it looks for relevant conversations in the past and attempts to answer your question using the information it finds. Its final answer includes a link to the original discussion so that you can verify the answer and follow the full conversation. If you ask a question which has been answered by somebody before, Yentabot can find that answer. Otherwise, Yentabot will say it doesn't know. Since it's only referencing other things people has said, Yentabot cannot answer general-knowledge questions or perform an analysis of your Slack data. On to some practicalities! Yentabot needs to be added to a channel in order to access the history and respond to answers. Yentabot only sees history in channels it is invited to and cannot read DMs. Information Yentabot sees in one channel, will be used to answer questions in other channels. To ask a question: • @mention Yentabot like

@yentabot what is the url of our staging environment?

Or: • add the 🤖 or ❓ emoji as a reaction to a question someone asked You can leave feedback for Yentabot by adding emoji reactions to its answers or replying in a thread. Please message @Jonah Stiennon, one of the authors of Yentabot, if you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions.

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