Get Random message by getRandomMessage() function from ask-utils

getRandomeMessage() provides you to get the randomized message. Let’s make your skill more engaging.

Alexa team told us to make our skill interactions more natural and conversational.
-> Alexa Skill Recipe: Randomize Your Responses to Add Variety to Your Skill

And the blog post tell us the example code to get the randomized message.

function randomPhrase(myData) {
  // the argument is an array [] of words or phrases
  var i = 0;
  i = Math.floor(Math.random() * myData.length);
  return(myData[i]);
}
const confirmations = ['ok','got it','roger that', 'sounds good', 'great'];
const message = "Here’s your random confirmation message, " + randomPhrase(confirmations))

ask-utils provides simple helper function.

The ask-utils provides a useful helper function.
The function is getRandomMessage().
When use the function, you don’t have to define these a helper function.

import { getRandomMessage } from 'ask-utils'
const message = "Here’s your random confirmation message, " + getRandomMessage([
    'ok',
    'got it',
    'roger that',
    'sounds good',
    'great'
  ]
)

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