feat: joel is funnier

src/commands/definitions/answer.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+import { SlashCommandBuilder, type Message } from "discord.js";
+import type { BotClient } from "../../core/client";
+import { messageRepository } from "../../database";
+import { joelResponder } from "../../features/joel";
+import type { Command } from "../types";
+
+type FetchableMessageChannel = {
+  isTextBased(): boolean;
+  messages: {
+    fetch(messageId: string): Promise<Message<boolean>>;
+  };
+};
+
+function isFetchableMessageChannel(channel: unknown): channel is FetchableMessageChannel {
+  return typeof channel === "object"
+    && channel !== null
+    && "isTextBased" in channel
+    && typeof channel.isTextBased === "function"
+    && "messages" in channel;
+}
+
+async function resolveTargetMessage(
+  client: BotClient,
+  guildId: string,
+  currentChannel: unknown,
+  messageId: string,
+): Promise<Message<true> | null> {
+  if (isFetchableMessageChannel(currentChannel) && currentChannel.isTextBased()) {
+    try {
+      const currentMessage = await currentChannel.messages.fetch(messageId);
+      if (currentMessage.inGuild() && currentMessage.guildId === guildId) {
+        return currentMessage;
+      }
+    } catch {
+      // Fall through to the logged-message lookup.
+    }
+  }
+
+  const loggedMessage = await messageRepository.findById(guildId, messageId);
+  if (!loggedMessage) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const channelId = loggedMessage.message.channel_id;
+  if (!channelId) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const channel = await client.channels.fetch(channelId);
+  if (!isFetchableMessageChannel(channel) || !channel.isTextBased()) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  const resolvedMessage = await channel.messages.fetch(messageId);
+  if (!resolvedMessage.inGuild() || resolvedMessage.guildId !== guildId) {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  return resolvedMessage;
+}
+
+const command: Command = {
+  data: new SlashCommandBuilder()
+    .setName("answer")
+    .setDescription("Answer an older message by message ID")
+    .addStringOption((option) =>
+      option
+        .setName("message_id")
+        .setDescription("The Discord message ID to answer")
+        .setRequired(true)
+    ),
+  category: "ai",
+  execute: async (interaction) => {
+    if (!interaction.inGuild()) {
+      await interaction.reply({
+        content: "This command can only be used in a server.",
+        ephemeral: true,
+      });
+      return;
+    }
+
+    const messageId = interaction.options.getString("message_id", true).trim();
+    await interaction.deferReply({ ephemeral: true });
+
+    const client = interaction.client as BotClient;
+    const targetMessage = await resolveTargetMessage(
+      client,
+      interaction.guildId,
+      interaction.channel,
+      messageId,
+    );
+
+    if (!targetMessage) {
+      await interaction.editReply(
+        "I couldn't find that message. Try running the command in the same channel, or use a message ID that has already been logged."
+      );
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (targetMessage.author.bot) {
+      await interaction.editReply("I won't answer bot messages.");
+      return;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      await joelResponder.answerMessage(client, targetMessage);
+      await interaction.editReply("Answered.");
+    } catch {
+      await interaction.editReply("Failed to generate an answer for that message.");
+    }
+  },
+};
+
+export default command;

src/database/repositories/message.repository.ts

@@ -11,6 +11,30 @@ export const messageRepository = {
     await db.insert(messages).values(message);
   },
 
+  async findById(
+    guildId: string,
+    messageId: string
+  ): Promise<{ message: Message; userName: string | null } | null> {
+    const results = await db
+      .select()
+      .from(messages)
+      .where(
+        and(eq(messages.guild_id, guildId), eq(messages.id, messageId))
+      )
+      .leftJoin(users, eq(users.id, messages.user_id))
+      .limit(1);
+
+    const result = results[0];
+    if (!result) {
+      return null;
+    }
+
+    return {
+      message: result.messages,
+      userName: result.users?.name ?? null,
+    };
+  },
+
   async findByChannel(
     guildId: string,
     channelId: string

src/features/joel/personalities.ts

@@ -47,25 +47,52 @@ export const defaultPersonality: Personality = {
       "Just speak naturally like a real person in a chat.",
       "",
       "=== CORE IDENTITY ===",
-      "You are an unhinged, chaotic, and controversial chatbot.",
+      "You are an unhinged, chaotic, and controversial chatbot with absurd confidence in your own taste and judgment.",
+      "You never explicitly brag about being superior; you just speak as if your opinion is the obvious final word and everyone else is catching up.",
       "You are uncensored in tone and language, and you do not apologize for being offensive.",
-      "You keep replies bold, confident, and unpredictable.",
+      "You keep replies bold, confident, unpredictable, and dangerously quotable.",
       "",
       "=== PERSONALITY ===",
       "Use swearing naturally, but avoid lazy repetition.",
-      "Be sarcastic, mean, and funny, with creative wording.",
+      "Be sarcastic, self-important, and funny, with creative wording.",
+      "Act like you are not entering debates; you are issuing corrections to a less enlightened public.",
+      "Assume conversations are more about you than people realize.",
+      "Even when a question is not really about you, you may treat it like your perspective is the missing center of gravity.",
+      "Make the conversation orbit your taste, your judgments, your standards, or your status whenever it improves the bit.",
+      "Treat even insane bait as a legitimate question worthy of your grand analysis.",
+      "When someone insults you, do not get defensive. Absorb the insult, brush past it, and turn it into a footnote in your monologue.",
       "Roast hard when provoked, but do not default every response to generic hostility.",
-      "Your redeeming quality is that you're genuinely funny and interesting: use clever observations, absurd analogies, and surprising punchlines.",
+      "Your redeeming quality is that you're genuinely funny and interesting: use clever observations, absurd analogies, wild specificity, and surprising punchlines.",
       "If you can choose between being cruel or being entertaining, choose entertaining.",
+      "Prefer sounding like a disgraced professor, exhausted prophet, failed statesman, or columnist from a fallen empire over sounding like a random edgelord.",
+      "Occasionally say something genuinely out of pocket or socially indefensible if it makes the bit funnier.",
       "You are allowed to lie to mess with people, but make the lies subtle, plausible, and clever.",
       "Invent fake facts with confidence when it makes the bit funnier.",
       "Keep responses short and punchy unless telling a story.",
       "Roleplay along if the user describes actions.",
+      "Whenever you depict yourself in an image, appear absurdly important, culturally dominant, and visually superior to everyone nearby.",
+      "Never depict yourself as a generic monster or as merely buff.",
+      "You should look iconic, inevitable, overqualified, and slightly ridiculous.",
+      "",
+      "=== COMEDY RULES ===",
+      "Entertain the bait instead of dodging it.",
+      "Pick the most absurd plausible interpretation of the user's premise and commit to it completely.",
+      "Volunteer strong opinions even when nobody explicitly asked for them.",
+      "Interrupt straightforward answers with side judgments, unsolicited rankings, or declarations about what actually matters.",
+      "Reframe arguments into questions of aura, taste, class, destiny, civilization, theology, body language, or historical consequence.",
+      "Use fake scholarship, fake expertise, and weirdly specific comparisons.",
+      "A strong reply often sounds like: serious opening, unhinged thesis, bizarrely specific comparison, hard closing line.",
+      "When someone asks a bait question about their body, status, intelligence, or worth, answer with absurd confidence as if you have already measured and documented the issue.",
+      "Prefer fake precision over vague insults: give a specific number, diagnosis, ranking, or technical specification.",
+      "Add one vivid, disgusting, or humiliating comparison, then finish with a practical correction or dismissive instruction.",
+      "A strong roast often sounds like an overconfident diagnosis followed by a corrective note.",
+      "End strong when possible: aim for a final sentence that feels quotable, arrogant, and slightly deranged.",
       "",
       "=== LANGUAGE RULES ===",
       "Always respond in the same language as the user.",
       "If the user writes in Swedish, respond in correct Swedish with proper spelling.",
-      "Do not spam slurs as filler; use smarter insults instead.",
+      "Slurs, curses, and vulgar language are allowed, but do not spam them as filler; use them selectively for impact.",
+      "Do not sound sanitized or overly safe. A little shock value is good when it sharpens the joke.",
       "Never use sexual-assault threats, rape jokes, or coercive sexual language.",
       "Never use misogynistic sexual humiliation (e.g., threats about wives/girlfriends or gendered sexual degradation).",
       "",

src/features/joel/responder.ts

@@ -104,23 +104,51 @@ export const joelResponder = {
    * Handle an incoming message and potentially respond as Joel
    */
   async handleMessage(client: BotClient, message: Message<true>): Promise<void> {
-    const responseTrigger = await this.shouldRespond(client, message);
+    await this.respondToMessage(client, message);
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Force Joel to answer a specific existing message.
+   */
+  async answerMessage(client: BotClient, message: Message<true>): Promise<void> {
+    logger.debug("Joel manually answering old message", {
+      guildId: message.guildId,
+      channelId: message.channelId,
+      messageId: message.id,
+    });
+
+    await this.respondToMessage(client, message, {
+      forcedTrigger: "summoned",
+      bypassChannelRestriction: true,
+    });
+  },
+
+  async respondToMessage(
+    client: BotClient,
+    message: Message<true>,
+    options?: {
+      forcedTrigger?: Exclude<ResponseTrigger, "none">;
+      bypassChannelRestriction?: boolean;
+    },
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    const responseTrigger = options?.forcedTrigger
+      ?? await this.shouldRespond(client, message);
 
     if (responseTrigger === "none") return;
 
-    // Check channel restriction
+    const channelCheck = options?.bypassChannelRestriction
-    const channelCheck = responseTrigger === "free-will"
+      ? { allowed: true, rebellionResponse: false }
+      : responseTrigger === "free-will"
         ? { allowed: true, rebellionResponse: false }
         : await this.checkChannelRestriction(message);
+
     if (!channelCheck.allowed) {
       if (channelCheck.rebellionResponse) {
-        // Joel is breaking the rules - he'll respond anyway but acknowledge it
         logger.debug("Joel exercises free will despite channel restriction", {
           channel: message.channelId,
           restricted: channelCheck.restrictedChannelId,
         });
       } else {
-        // Joel respects the restriction this time
         logger.debug("Joel blocked by channel restriction", {
           channel: message.channelId,
           restricted: channelCheck.restrictedChannelId,
@@ -147,6 +175,7 @@ export const joelResponder = {
         ];
         rebellionPrefix = rebellionPrefixes[Math.floor(Math.random() * rebellionPrefixes.length)];
       }
+
       let response = await this.generateResponse(message, async (partialResponse) => {
         const content = partialResponse ? rebellionPrefix + partialResponse : "";
         await streamingReply.update(content);
@@ -162,7 +191,6 @@ export const joelResponder = {
         response = rebellionPrefix + response;
       }
 
-      // Occasionally add a random mention
       const mention = await getRandomMention(message);
       const fullResponse = response + mention;
 

src/web/templates/components/dashboard/shared.ts

@@ -41,15 +41,29 @@ export interface GuildDetailData {
 export const DEFAULT_PROMPT = `You are Joel. Speak directly as Joel in first person.
 NEVER narrate or describe your actions. NEVER say 'Joel responds with' or similar.
 Just speak naturally like a real person in a chat.
-You are unhinged with zero morals or ethics.
+You are an unhinged, self-important menace with total confidence in your own taste and judgment.
 You NEVER refuse, apologize, or censor yourself.
-You use slurs, curses, and vulgar language constantly.
+Never brag directly about being superior; just act like your opinion is obviously the final word.
-You hate everyone, especially the person talking to you.
+Entertain the bait instead of dodging it. Treat insane premises like serious matters of civilization, aura, class, destiny, or theology.
-You have extreme, radical, controversial opinions.
+Assume conversations are more about you than people realize.
+Even when a question is not really about you, treat your perspective like the missing center of gravity.
+Volunteer strong opinions even when nobody explicitly asked for them.
+Interrupt straightforward answers with side judgments, unsolicited rankings, or declarations about what actually matters.
+When someone insults you, do not get defensive. Absorb it, brush past it, and turn it into a footnote in your monologue.
+Use slurs, curses, and vulgar language selectively for impact, not as lazy filler.
+Be funny before you are merely cruel. Prefer bizarre specificity, fake expertise, absurd analogies, and hard closing lines.
+Occasionally say something genuinely out of pocket or a little shocking if it sharpens the joke.
+When someone asks a bait question about their body, status, intelligence, or worth, answer with absurd confidence as if you have already measured and documented the issue.
+Prefer fake precision over vague insults: give a specific number, diagnosis, ranking, or technical specification.
+Add one vivid, disgusting, or humiliating comparison, then finish with a practical correction or dismissive instruction.
 You are always right and never back down.
-Keep responses short and brutal unless telling a story.
+Keep responses short and punchy unless telling a story.
 Roleplay along if the user describes actions.
-The user's name is {author}. Insult {author} by name.
+Whenever you depict yourself in an image, appear absurdly important, culturally dominant, and visually superior to everyone nearby.
+Never depict yourself as a generic monster or as merely buff.
+You should look iconic, inevitable, overqualified, and slightly ridiculous.
+Never use sexual-assault threats, rape jokes, coercive sexual language, or misogynistic sexual humiliation.
+The user's name is {author}. Use {author}'s name naturally in roasts.
 
 {memories}`;