Gave bots room topic text in their prompt, increased time to respond, decreased inactivity timer, added randomness to inactivity timer, and tried to fix the (pass) on refresh

chat_application/main.py

@@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ def send_initial_post(room_id, delay):
     if not topic_info:
         return
     initialPost = topic_info["post"]
+    # Add the topic text to bots prompts
+    FROBOT_PROMPT = f"The topic of this chat is:\n{topic_info['text']}\n"+FROBOT_PROMPT
+    COOLBOT_PROMPT = f"The topic of this chat is:\n{topic_info['text']}\n"+COOLBOT_PROMPT
+    HOTBOT_PROMPT = f"The topic of this chat is:\n{topic_info['text']}\n"+HOTBOT_PROMPT
     # Store the initial post in the database
     db_msg = {
         "sender": "watermelon",
@@ -206,8 +210,10 @@ def send_bot_joined(room_id, bot_name, delay):
     socketio.emit("message", {"sender": "", "message": f"{bot_name} has entered the chat"}, to=room_id)
 
 # Trigger a round of bot calls if user has been inactive for a while
-def user_inactivity_tracker(room_id, timeout_seconds=180):
+def user_inactivity_tracker(room_id, timeout_seconds=120,randomNorm = (0,15)):
     print(f"Started user inactivity tracker for Room ID#{room_id}")
+    # add randomness to timeout
+    timeout_seconds += np.random.normal(randomNorm[0],randomNorm[1])
     while True:
         room_doc = rooms_collection.find_one({"_id": room_id})
         # Stop if this room's chat has ended
@@ -252,8 +258,9 @@ def replace_semicolons(text, probability=0.80):
     return ''.join(modified_text)
 
 def get_response_delay(response):
-    baseDelay = 1 # standard delay for thinking
-    randFactor = random.uniform(2, 12.)
+    baseDelay = 5 # standard delay for thinking
+    randFactor = np.random.uniform(0,30, len(response) // 4)
+    randFactor = max(randFactor) # Make longer responses more likely to take longer
     perCharacterDelay = 0.12
     # was .25 -> average speed: 3.33 characters/second = 0.3
     maxDelay = 150 # maximum cap of 2.5 minutes (so the bots don't take too long)
@@ -558,7 +565,7 @@ def room():
         return redirect(url_for('topics'))
     nonpass_messages = [
         m for m in room_doc["messages"]
-        if m.get("message", "").strip() != "(pass)"
+        if len(re.findall(r"pass",m.get("message", "").strip())) == 0
     ]
     return render_template("room.html", room=room_id, topic_info=topic_info, user=display_name, messages=nonpass_messages, FroBot_name=room_doc["FroBot_name"], HotBot_name=room_doc["HotBot_name"], CoolBot_name=room_doc["CoolBot_name"], ended=room_doc["ended"])