IceBreaker for Conversational Agents: Breaking the First-Message Barrier with Personalized Starters
Conversational agents, such as ChatGPT and Doubao, have become essential daily assistants for billions of users. To further enhance engagement, these systems are evolving from passive responders to proactive companions. However, existing efforts focus on activation within ongoing dialogues, while overlooking a key real-world bottleneck. In the conversation initiation stage, users may have a vague need but no explicit query intent, creating a first-message barrier where the conversation holds bef
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Published: 20 April 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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