Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

thearn4 wrote: post #3

Next up: A Stallman slack bot that interjects into any conversations that mention "Linux" to remind everyone that it's "GNU/Linux"

https://twitter.com/rmsthebot/with_replies

:)

Re: Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

#5

Post by wuzzzzaah » Mon, May 25, 2015, 5:00 AM UTC

trying it out. thanks.

Re: Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

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Post by bliti » Mon, May 25, 2015, 5:32 AM UTC

thearn4 wrote: post #3

Next up: A Stallman slack bot that interjects into any conversations that mention "Linux" to remind everyone that it's "GNU/Linux"

Sounds like a funny idea for a reddit bot.

Re: Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

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Post by mehrzad » Mon, May 25, 2015, 5:55 AM UTC

thearn4 wrote: post #3

Next up: A Stallman slack bot that interjects into any conversations that mention "Linux" to remind everyone that it's "GNU/Linux"

At least one tech-oriented IRC channel has this, probably dozens more.

Re: Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

#8

Post by redwards510 » Mon, May 25, 2015, 6:16 AM UTC

At first I was suspicious of this.. Slack sends every channel message out to be parsed by a script? That's not good! But once I looked at the source it all made sense. Yes, in order to operate properly you need to be sending every message in a channel to heroku so that it can do the .05% probability matching and not give a reply every time (or only on specific keywords). This is how most slack web hooks work.

Looking at the source is very educational! I can't wait to take this whole solution and modify it with some company-specific features. It's really a wonderful introduction into using this Slack feature and to Heroku as well. Thanks for posting!

Re: Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

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Post by sugarraps » Mon, May 25, 2015, 3:35 PM UTC

wuzzzzaah wrote: post #5

trying it out. thanks.

How did it go? :)

Re: Show HN: Kanye West bot interrupts your Slack conversations

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Post by sugarraps » Mon, May 25, 2015, 3:36 PM UTC

redwards510 wrote: post #8

At first I was suspicious of this.. Slack sends every channel message out to be parsed by a script? That's not good! But once I looked at the source it all made sense. Yes, in order to operate properly you need to be sending every message in a channel to heroku so that it can do the .05% probability matching and not give a reply every time (or only on specific keywords). This is how most slack web hooks work. Looking…

Let me know what you do with it. :)