hubot-impersonate
Enable Hubot to learn from chat history and impersonate users. Hubot attempts to act more natural in its responses by adding delay variance and response frequency thresholds to prevent channel spamming and act as a good (if slightly deranged) citizen.
Bob: pizza is super good
Alice: hubot impersonate bob
Hubot: Alright, I'll impersonate Bob.
Eve: I love pizza
Hubot: pizza is super
...
Model
Currently uses simple Markov chain based on markov-respond. I'm using msgpack to store the model efficiently.
Configuration
Operation mode
Set the mode of operation (default 'train'). Can be one of 'train', 'respond', 'train_respond'.
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_MODE=mode
Minimum number of words
Ignore messages with fewer than N words (default 1).
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_MIN_WORDS=N
Initialization timeout
Wait for N milliseconds for hubot to initialize and load brain data from redis. (default 10000)
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_INIT_TIMEOUT=N
Case sensitivity
Whether to keep the original case of words. (default false)
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_CASE_SENSITIVE=true|false
Strip punctuation
Whether to strip punctuation/symbols from messages. (default false)
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_STRIP_PUNCTUATION=true|false
Response delay (per word)
Simulate time to type a word, as a baseline, in milliseconds. A naive variance is applied to this number so as to produce irregularities in perceived response speed. (default 600)
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_RESPONSE_DELAY_PER_WORD=N
Frequency threshold
On a scale of 0-100, what number has to be exceeded by the randomizer in order to return a response. (default 50)
HUBOT_IMPERSONATE_FREQUENCY_THRESHOLD=N
Commands
Impersonate
Start impersonating <user>.
hubot impersonate <user>
Stop
Stop impersonating.
hubot stop impersonating
Stop impersonation in the present room
Hush hubot's impersonation routines in the present room
hubot stop impersonation in here
Start impersonation in the present room
Allow hubot's impersonation routines in the present room
hubot start impersonation in here
Get impersonation status
Find out who's being impersonated along with restricted rooms.
hubot give impersonation status
TODO
- Turn RESTRICTED_AREAS to ALLOWED_AREAS and allow as a configuration variable
- Allow for frequency threshold manipulation by users
- Disregard frequency threshold if directly addressed or mentioned
- Investigate pruning of phrases by keyword to clean up overly-emphasized segments
- Investigate per-user history clean-slating