A new chat opens with a different line every time
The empty chat screen used to greet everyone with the same fixed line, every single time. It now draws from a pool of twenty different openers in English and Russian, each written as its own direct invitation rather than a generic placeholder, so starting a new conversation doesn't feel like reading the same header for the thousandth time.
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Added twenty rotating greeting variants for the empty chat screen, in both English and Russian.
A new, different greeting is chosen each time you switch to a fresh or empty conversation.
The heading's layout, size, and position are unchanged, only the wording rotates.
No setting to configure: the rotation is automatic and requires no action.
Every new chat in Portail opens on an empty screen with a single line above the composer inviting you to type something. Until now that line never changed: "What can I help you figure out today?" appeared identically on the first chat anyone ever opened and on the thousandth, in every language, for every user, forever. It did its job, but a product used daily benefits from small variation, the kind that keeps a familiar screen from going fully invisible through repetition.
This release replaces that single fixed string with a pool of twenty. They range from plain questions ("What are you working on?", "What's the task?") to more direct invitations ("Throw me your hardest question," "Say the word, I'm ready") to a couple with a bit more personality ("Bring me the messy version, I'll clean it up," "Give me something to chew on"). Each was written as its own complete line rather than a template with a blank to fill in, so none of them read like a form letter. The Russian set is not a literal translation of the English one; each line was written separately to land the same directness and warmth in Russian phrasing, matching the register Portail already uses elsewhere in the interface.
The mechanism is simple by design. Every time you switch to a conversation with no messages in it, whether that's starting a brand new chat or returning to one you opened but never used, one of the twenty lines is chosen at random and shown. Reopening the same empty conversation without switching away keeps the greeting stable rather than reshuffling on every render, so it doesn't feel jittery. Nothing else about the empty state changed: the heading keeps its exact size, weight, spacing, and position, and the composer, model switcher, and suggested prompts underneath it are untouched. The only difference is that the first thing you read when you open Portail isn't always the same nineteen words in the same order.
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