Using my own logic for Chat assistant content

[Paulo]

Hi @Taka_Binancio, here are a couple of topics that should help with your use case:

Send Retool Chat message as Assistant (not as user) using JS

Goal: I want the Retool AI assistant to send specific messages using Javascript. Steps: Right now, I'm playing around with the chat1.sendmessage function but this sends the message as the user (me), not as the assistant. I am alternatively also trying to do this by overwriting the message history, but the chat doesn't reflect any updates I make to message history.

Let retool AI send first message in chat component

it's possible to do this without CSS, here's how I did it: the 'intro' message that the ai sends as the 1st message should usually be removed from the message history. this message doesn't have any previous context so it shouldn't be used... openai lets you add initial messages to a thread when using the assistants api, which end up being ignored, but since we don't know if this is being used or if Retool is managing history on its own we want to 'normalize' things so it doesn't matter [imag…