# Heartbeat improvements / Timers \[Community Consideration\]

**URL:** <https://forum.dfinity.org/t/heartbeat-improvements-timers-community-consideration/14201>\
**Category:** Developers\
**Tags:** community-consideration\
**Created:** [July 7, 2022, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/heartbeat-improvements-timers-community-consideration/14201 "2022-07-07T13:51:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![mparikh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/91b2a8/32.png) [@mparikh](https://forum.dfinity.org/u/mparikh)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://forum.dfinity.org/t/heartbeat-improvements-timers-community-consideration/14201/84 "2022-12-22T01:11:31Z")

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Is there a way to call async functions (i.e. raw\_rand()) within the function invoked by set\_timer/set\_timer\_interval?

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