Your conversational AI application can sometimes process messages too quickly. You can introduce artificial delays to actions that are sent to simulate pauses between messages.

In this How To, you'll learn how to create a dialog that:

• sends an initial message
• waits for 3 seconds
• sends a subsequent message

To do this perform the following steps:

1. Add a new Send a Response action by clicking on the + node in the designer canvas:
2. Click on the + node in UI Builder and add a new Send a Response action:

1. Set the Text property to Looking up data:

1. Add another Send a Response activity directly under the one you just added. Select this and click on Switch To Code Editor: