Talk to your assistants in Slack

If enabled by your admin, you can use the @Dust assistant directly in Slack channels. Assistants will have the context of the conversation, and this will be extremely helpful if you want everyone to see the answer to a given question.

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If you cannot access Dust in Slack

• Ensure it's set-up by the admin in the Quickstart

Calling an assistant in Slack

To call other assistants, use the syntax @dust ~gpt4 OR @dust +gpt4 and your question to engage with @gpt4 for example (change gpt4 to any company assistant name to interact with it!).

Linking an assistant to a Slack channel

You can link an assistant to a Slack channel to have your assistant answer every time the generic @dust assistant is called.

Example: you have a public #hr-questions channel on Slack and you want your specialized @hr_help assistant to answer instead of the generic @dust assistant. You can link your assistant to the channel, and it will automatically answer.

To set it up, click on "Sharing", set your assistant as "Shared" or "Company" and activate the Slack integration.

Here is an example where we see our @askHRteam assistant reply when Dust is called:

Automating using Slack workflows

You can also leverage the Slack workflows to trigger Dust assistants automatically. Here's how you can set this up: Slack workflows

Note that we do not synchronize messages written by Dust assistants, to reduce the risk of propagating potential mistakes from those answers as a data source.