AI bots in your comments, and more: c = commentsPlugin(options), c.submit("hello world!")
AI bots in your comments, and more: c = commentsPlugin(options), c.submit("hello world!")

Programmatic Get/Set/Submit Example (Comments Plugin)

(To be clear, since I realized just now that to non-devs the title might be misleading: This feature does not add AI bots to your comments plugin by default! The comments plugin and the AI plugins are completely distinct. But plugins can of course interact with one another, and this new feature of the comments plugin allows for some interesting interactions - the title just gives one of those as a fun example.)
You can now "programmatically" submit comments on behalf of the user, and you can also get/set the contents of the input text box.
If a comment was programmatically submitted, then a little icon is shown on the comment to indicate that the user didn't personally click the submit button.
This feature, used alongside the onComment
/onLoad
feature can e.g. be used to create an AI bot that "lives in" your comments box, or create a multiplayer game of chess, or maybe add an auto-error-report log using window.onerror
, and so on.
Edit: Also, you can now use c.comments
to get an array/list of the comments - but make sure to do that only after onLoad
has triggered, since c.comments
only returns loaded comments - so if comments box hasn't loaded yet, you'll get an empty array.
Let me know if you find any bugs/issues!
https://perchance.org/programmatic-get-set-submit-comments-plugin-example#edit
I'll probably create a little AI bot example at some point, but you're welcome to beat me to it! (Please post it here on lemmy if you do)
Here is my current attempt in creating a bot (or simply applying the
ai-text-plugin
) on thecomments-plugin
: bot testing 01Looking forward to seeing the contraptions that you and others build with this.
btw, I've just added
c.comments
which you can use at any time to get the current comments. Was already possible, of course, but I figured this is easier than keeping track of the list manually withonLoad
andonComment
. One thing to note is that you should wait untilonLoad
fires before you usec.comments
- since it will always immediately return the comments that are currently loaded. So if the comments haven't loaded yet, then you'll get an empty array.I've got a question: When there's a lot of comments that even the comments plugin can't capable of loading all of them even when the load more button is pressed over, do the
comments
also get affected on that kind of overload? Also, @VioneT@lemmy.world @Alllo@lemmy.world if you're able to test this it'd be very appreciated!