# 3. everyone receives message
        for receiver in self.agents:
            receiver.receive(speaker.name, message)
        # 4. increment time
        self._step += 1
        return speaker.name, message
DirectorDialogueAgent class#
The DirectorDialogueAgent is a privileged agent that chooses which of the other agents to speak next. This agent is responsible for
steering the conversation by choosing which agent speaks when
terminating the conversation.
In order to implement such an agent, we need to solve several problems.
First, to steer the conversation, the DirectorDialogueAgent needs to (1) reflect on what has been said, (2) choose the next agent, and (3) prompt the next agent to speak, all in a single message. While it may be possible to prompt an LLM to perform all three steps in the same call, this requires writing custom code to parse the outputted message to extract which next agent is chosen to speak. This is less reliable the LLM can express how it chooses the next agent in different ways.
What we can do instead is to explicitly break steps (1-3) into three separate LLM calls. First we will ask the DirectorDialogueAgent to reflect on the conversation so far and generate a response. Then we prompt the DirectorDialogueAgent to output the index of the next agent, which is easily parseable. Lastly, we pass the name of the selected next agent back to DirectorDialogueAgent to ask it prompt the next agent to speak.
Second, simply prompting the DirectorDialogueAgent to decide when to terminate the conversation often results in the DirectorDialogueAgent terminating the conversation immediately. To fix this problem, we randomly sample a Bernoulli variable to decide whether the conversation should terminate. Depending on the value of this variable, we will inject a custom prompt to tell the DirectorDialogueAgent to either continue the conversation or terminate the conversation.
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