Coding Assessment: Chatbox Enhancement

🎯 Your Task

Your mission is to transform this chatbot into an extraordinary conversational agent. Here's what you need to do:

1. Onboarding Questions: Develop a feature to ask users three onboarding questions:

   • What is their favorite country?
   • What is their favorite continent?
   • What is their favorite destination?

2. General Purpose Chatbot: Post-onboarding, the chatbot should be capable of answering questions related to world geography.

3. Creativity and Architecture: We are looking for innovative solutions, creative flair, and robust architectural decisions. This task should take at least 1 hour, but feel free to invest more time to enhance the chatbot's capabilities.

📋 Additional Notes

• Utilize environment variables from .env.example (OpenAI Keys for this project).
• Implement a streaming chatbot for the chat rendered in page.tsx using the /api/stream endpoint.
• Leverage OpenAI npm packages, adhere to best practices, and incorporate your own design and functionality ideas.
• Use the GPT 4.1 model.
• Ensure the chat can onboard users, allow them to change preferences, and engage in informative conversations. (No database needed; mock data is sufficient.)

✨ Current Features

• Next.js (App Router) running on Node 22.15.0
• TypeScript with strict mode enabled
• Tailwind CSS for rapid UI styling
• Fixed bottom-right chatbox component
• /api/stream Edge route that streams an echo response ⚡️
• Stub for integrating an OpenAI Assistant to add side-effects (analytics, logging, etc.)

🚀 How to Get Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone git@github.com:AskVinny/chatboxtest.git
   cd chatboxtest

2. Ensure the correct Node version:

   nvm install 22.15.0
   nvm use

3. Install dependencies and run the development server:

   npm install
   npm run dev

🧑‍💻 Best Practice Guidance

1. Use strict TypeScript with ESLint (typescript-eslint).
2. Opt for Edge runtime to reduce latency on the streaming route.
3. Manage environment variables via env.example (ignored by Git).

📧 Completion

Once you've completed the task, please email Rory at [rory@askvinny.co.uk] to schedule a review call and discuss your implementation.