Ah, so, will they talk at some point - yes, confirmed : ). They do that now in our unstable branch (its super cute!).
The question of ‘what will the conversations be about (if anything)?’ is still being answered. There is actually a community discussion on it here: Discussion about hearthling speech
yeah i actually found that one a little bit after posting that question as you can see i’ve made a few suggestions in it check em out i also had some dev questions i made in this one