Implementación de un búfer de mensajes escalable en n8n para diálogos naturales con IA

• •Información de conexión del servidor Redis
• •Clave de API de OpenAI

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        "content": "## 🚀 Welcome to the Scalable Chat Buffer Workflow!\n\nThis workflow solves a common problem in AI chat implementations: handling multiple rapid messages from users naturally.\n\n### 🎯 What it does:\n- **Buffers** rapid messages from users (like when someone types multiple lines quickly)\n- **Aggregates** them into a single context\n- **Processes** everything together for more natural AI responses\n- **Scales** efficiently for multiple concurrent users\n\n### 📋 Prerequisites:\n1. **Redis** connection configured\n2. **OpenAI API** key (or other LLM provider)\n3. **n8n version** 1.0.0 or higher\n\n### ⚙️ Configuration:\n1. Set up your Redis credentials\n2. Configure your LLM provider\n3. Adjust the buffer timing (default: 15 seconds)\n4. Deploy and test!\n\n### 💡 Key Innovation:\nUnlike traditional approaches, only the FIRST message in a sequence waits. Subsequent messages skip the queue, eliminating bottlenecks!"
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        "content": "## 📥 Message Entry Point\n\nThe **Chat Trigger** receives all incoming messages from users.\n\n**Session ID** is crucial - it ensures each user's messages are handled separately, enabling true parallel processing.\n\nDespite we are using the traditional chat trigger, this workflow will perform better using other chat triggers like Telegram and WhatsApp."
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