Company
Date Published
Author
Dominik Kundel
Word count
1249
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

A bot for Programmable Chat in Node.js was created by adding a simple bot that returns a GIF whenever asked. The bot intercepts messages, controls conversations, and sends its own messages to join the chat. It can be upgraded to send additional contextual information such as image attributes. The front-end needs to be updated to display the images properly. With this bot, developers are only limited by their imagination, and they can extend it to create more complex bots that perform various tasks, such as recommending restaurants based on conversations about lunch.