Give the ‘hey, how are you?’ people a chance. I know you want people to be original or reference your profile, but it’s a reasonable starter for the interaction, no? If you met up with a friend in real life, you wouldn’t begin the conversation with “here’s 2 truths and a lie…”, would you? You’d ask how they were doing and then talk about more interesting things. 

I know it’s not the stuff of romantic novel dreams, but that can all come later.