Message buffer: Has anyone implemented it? Can you help?

Question

I would like to create a message buffer into Typebot before sending to LLM.

Anthony · Accepted Answer

The only thing that would help the user understand the UX better is to let them know to say what they want to say in 1 single message, for the bot to respond, which is fair

Anthony · Answer

You could create a new variable called message_buffer that's an empty list, and each new message would be appended (pushed) to that list, and then you'd give that list to your LLM (either raw ["string", "string"...] or concatenated/joined "string string" with your custom delimiter, a space or a line break for example). Sounds close to your expected end result?

jempreendedor · Answer

Not really, because I didn't find a way to get out of the loop after some time, 10s for example, you know?

Anthony · Answer

What's your use case then? What do you want to happen and when? How do you picture a "message buffer" to work for your use case?

jempreendedor · Answer

I have WhatsApp connected to typebot, which cannot prevent the user from sending "chopped" messages, so I need to implement a buffer routine, and only then send it to LLM to process. Got it?

Anthony · Answer

Aah, I get it now. Sadly, there is currently no timeout feature for the Input block.
It's been requested many times, so it's maybe in the project roadmap.
Because your use case would required you to have an Input block, with a set timeout. When the timeout is not reached, you loop back to the Input so it keeps asking the user for their input, otherwise if the timeout is reached, send the messages to the LLM.
So, you could only do that if/when the feature gets implemented. I can't think of a workaround for now

jempreendedor · Answer

Thanks, man!

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