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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

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AI bots in your comments, and more: c = commentsPlugin(options), c.submit("hello world!") (perchance.org)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by perchance to c/perchance
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(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)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Feature request: How can I determine whether a comment is made "programatically" with some variable like comment.isBot or something?

[–] perchance 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks! Good feature request. I've just added comment.autoSent, and it's true if it was programmatically submitted. Let me know if there are any issues.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] Another one: What if you could just set the nickname for yourself only by using a single function, and not with the com.submit() method?

[–] perchance 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yep, you can do that with: com.setNicknameForNextComment("blah") and their next comment will have "blah" as the nickname. I added this a few days ago but didn't announce it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thank you! These are really great features for me to use in my advanced comments section demo. 😄

[–] VioneT 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also the message bubble buttons seems messed up 😅 after the addition of the reply button.

[–] perchance 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can you share screenshot? Not sure what you mean by message bubble buttons

[–] VioneT 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

From /generators page

From /hub page with Admin enabled.

[–] perchance 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ohh, specifically the admin "delete" button, you mean? If so, thanks! Fixed. I've just placed it properly between the reply and block buttons.

[–] VioneT 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Also there seems to be the 'delete' comment on replies (not sure if intended but clicking on it works to delete the reply and the mentioned comment):

[–] perchance 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks! 🙏 Should be fixed now.