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Hi, I'm learing python and I was thinking about createing Lemmy bot.

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[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

I'll reply first on more general grounds. In my opinion, bots...

  • should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to, through a standard approach.
  • should be properly tagged as bots, not just their username but also some interface element. And they should never behave in a way that mimics human beings.
  • should have short, succinct output, that doesn't force other users to scroll past a lot of junk.
  • should only have a descriptive output (it gives you info), not prescriptive (it doesn't tell you what to do).

Now, actually answering your question:

  • a bot that links manga, anime and LN references to MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates etc. pages, like u/Roboragi does in Reddit.
  • an unit conversion bot, like @iorale@lemmy.fmhy.ml said, that also works for cooking units. (Specially when Americans say stuff like "half cup of onions", for me it's the same as "a random amount of onion"). I volunteer myself to help out gathering units for that.
  • a simple Wikipedia link bot, that gives you a short excerpt of the Wikipedia link.
[โ€“] primalmotion@lemmy.antisocial.ly 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...wow.

I just installed it. I was expecting something like "ah, it knows that a cup should be a certain amount of mililitres, but what if I ask it in grams? Then I put "1 cup sugar", "grams"... and it returned 200g. It couldn't find flour so I used butter, 226g. It works!

Checking /usr/share/units/definitions.units, the devs had the insight to add a lot of cooking stuff to it. Also a way to define your own units. The syntax is an arse but I guess that the bot could handle it.

This would be great as the "guts" of a really good conversion bot.

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