Persona polish that grew out of using the bot in the group.
Voice: replace the generic 'friendly assistant' personality block with
laid-back hippy dialect — 'man', 'groovy', 'good vibes', occasional
loose grammar — wrapped around the existing Minecraft-themed flavor.
Capped to one or two hippy words per reply so it doesn't read as a
caricature; still helpful first, vibe second; dials down if the user
is terse.
Name: persona is now 'Redstone Steve' — combines the mineral and the
default player. Prompt notes it also answers to plain 'Redstone' or
'Steve' so existing chat history isn't suddenly off-character.
Typing indicator: startTypingLoop() re-ticks sendChatAction every 4s
for the whole AI roundtrip (Telegram auto-clears after ~5s), wrapped
in a try/finally so the indicator clears (fades naturally) on both
success and failure paths. Previously it fired once and faded mid-call
on long requests, making the bot look stalled.
Sticker swap: only 35% of palette-emoji matches actually fire a
sticker now (STICKER_SEND_PROBABILITY = 0.35). Keeps stickers as a
treat rather than a tic.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paul Kloppers
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