{
  "id": 5599,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18375v1",
  "title": "IceBreaker for Conversational Agents: Breaking the First-Message Barrier with Personalized Starters",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Hongwei Zheng, Weiqi Wu, Zhengjia Wang, Guanyu Jiang, Haoming Li, Tianyu Wu et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": "openai",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-04-20T15:02:03.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:31:53.164Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/5599",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18375v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}