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autokad on April 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chatbots have struggled to live up to the hype

it reminds me of mIRC bots of the late 90s that would +o you in a channel upon joining, kick people who -o or kicked you, or did other simple reactionary things.

spike021 on April 3, 2017 [–]

IRC bots still exist and are _relatively_ easy to write. Very useful things.

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