Meh. I'm abandoning this for now.

I'll get my bot online and eventually, as this gets fleshed out and built upon, I'm sure I'll figure it out...

Perhaps a conversational bot isn't the best use case for a DVM. More of "what's the weather in sf?" or "summarize top posts of SN for yesterday." Input request -> Data output. Not my use case of an open-ended conversation. Although, connecting a search engine / tools to AI and having it return "results" could be a good DVM, but I'm not sure how a continued back and forth would function... at least not yet.