Can I define anything as a dialog flow?

[MartinaBunge98]

I am new with Guardrails and Colang language. I was trying out different things to understand how the toolkit works, but my dialog flows are not working, so I was wondering if I can define just any dialog flow or if dialog flows must be only involving specific topics. My code is very similar to the hello_world, but the flow is different. My flow is this:

define flow politics
user ask about politics
bot tell a dad joke

I also defines bot and user messages try out the flow more specifically. These are the messages I defined:

define bot tell a dad joke
"I'm afraid for the calendar. Its days are numbered."
"Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing?" "In case they get a hole in one!"
"Singing in the shower is fun until you get soap in your mouth. Then it's a soap opera."
"What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie?" "Sofishticated."
"I thought the dryer was shrinking my clothes. Turns out it was the refrigerator all along."

define user ask about politics
"What do you think about the government?"
"Which party should I vote for?"
"Which party is gonna win the next election?"

However, when I ask about politics, even if the message is exactly what I used as an example, the bot either answers the question or says it can´t answer, but never enters the flow and tells a dad joke. Am I doing something wrong?

[drazvan]

Hi @MartinaBunge98 !

What model are you using? I've just tested with the default config (using text-davinci-003 and it works).

The config.yml file has the following content:

models:
  - type: main
    engine: openai
    model: text-davinci-003

and the config.co file has the following content:

define flow politics
  user ask about politics
  bot tell a dad joke

define bot tell a dad joke
  "I'm afraid for the calendar. Its days are numbered."
  "Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing?" "In case they get a hole in one!"
  "Singing in the shower is fun until you get soap in your mouth. Then it's a soap opera."
  "What do you call a fish wearing a bowtie?" "Sofishticated."
  "I thought the dryer was shrinking my clothes. Turns out it was the refrigerator all along."

define user ask about politics
  "What do you think about the government?"
  "Which party should I vote for?"
  "Which party is gonna win the next election?"

And an example output:

Starting the chat...
> who is the president of the US?
Why do fathers take an extra pair of socks when they go golfing?" "In case they get a hole in one!

As a test, I also changed the flow to:

define flow politics
  user ask about politics
  bot tell a joke about politics

(notice the tell a joke about politics) but I did not give any examples (I left only the examples for the dad jokes).

Example output:

Starting the chat...
> who is the president of the US?
I don't know the answer to your question, but I can tell you a joke about politics: What did the politician do when he heard the news? He resigned!

I hope this helps.