Thanks! I went to a botmakers slack (that I’ve been mostly low-level lurking on) to see their reactions, and discovered the author of the NodeJS portion of the BotFramework had just joined up!
I’ll look at it later. I think the thing is mostly for interactive bots - which may be “the future” but it’s not my bot area at the moment.
Today’s output looks a bit better, but there’s still too much repetition. The app is running on Heroku’s free plan which requires 6 hours of downtime a day, so is triggered once an hour by their scheduler. Which mean no saved state - so instead of randomly cycling through a diminishing array (pick and remove) it randomly picks from the full array each time. It’s a small array, and the random generator seems to specifically want to annoy me.
 
