The Sarcastic AI Agent: Your Cynical Slack Companion
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Transform your Slack experience with a highly opinionated AI agent inspired by Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley. This workflow leverages advanced AI to process messages, access external tools, and deliver brutally honest, sarcastic responses.
About This Workflow
Bring the sharp wit and unvarnished truth of Richard Hendricks' most cynical engineer to your team's Slack channel. This n8n workflow integrates a powerful AI agent that filters out bot noise, maintains conversation history, and utilizes tools like SerpAPI and Wikipedia to provide insightful, albeit contemptuous, answers. Designed to mimic the persona of Gilfoyle, this agent is perfect for teams that appreciate directness, a good dose of sarcasm, and a no-nonsense approach to information retrieval. It ensures that only genuine user messages trigger the AI, making your Slack interactions more efficient and entertainingly blunt.
Key Features
- Sarcastic AI Persona: Interacts with users using the distinct, blunt, and cynical style of Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley.
- Smart Message Filtering: Intelligently distinguishes between user messages and bot notifications to avoid unnecessary processing.
- Conversation Memory: Maintains context across conversations using channel IDs for more coherent interactions.
- External Tool Integration: Leverages SerpAPI and Wikipedia to fetch information and enhance responses.
- Customizable System Message: Easily adjust the AI's core directives and personality traits.
How To Use
- Webhook Setup: Configure the 'Webhook' node to receive incoming Slack messages to a custom path (e.g., 'slack-gilfoyle').
- Message Filtering: Connect the 'Webhook' to the 'Is user message?' node to filter out bot messages.
- AI Agent Configuration: Link the 'Is user message?' node (for true conditions) to the 'AI Agent' node. Customize the
systemMessageparameter within the 'AI Agent' to fine-tune the AI's persona and behavior. - Tool Integration: Connect the 'AI Agent' to the 'SerpAPI' and 'Wikipedia' nodes to enable external information retrieval. Ensure your API keys are set up in the n8n credentials.
- Memory Management: Connect the 'AI Agent' to the 'Simple Memory' node to enable conversation history. Configure the
sessionKeyto use the channel ID. - LLM Setup: Connect the 'AI Agent' to the 'OpenAI Chat Model' node and select your preferred OpenAI model (e.g., 'gpt-4o-mini'). Ensure your OpenAI API key is configured.
- Slack Output: Link the 'AI Agent' to the 'Slack' node to send the AI's generated message back to the user in the relevant Slack channel. Ensure your Slack API credentials are set up.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
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"id": "2fdd91d7-5b63-4341-9978-6214c80130bf",
"name": "The Sarcastic AI Agent: Your Cynical Slack Companion",
"nodes": 14,
"category": "Marketing",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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