assistant: This would fall under the sub-genre of "First Contact" which is a story dealing with the initial stages of contact with foreign usually alien species for inspiration some stories that would serve as good starting points include:

1. The Mote In The Gods Eye (1974 Science Fiction Novel)

In the year 3017, humanity is slowly recovering from an interstellar civil war that tore apart the first Empire of Man. The Moties are an alien species native to a planet that humans label Mote Prime, that has evolved into many specialized subspecies. Captain MacArthur and the battleship Lenin are sent to make first contact with the aliens, nicknamed "Moties". The Moties seem friendly and have advanced technology that they are willing to trade, much to the humans delight but the Moties are a complex race with there own problems and turmoils.

2. Contact (1997 Film)

Contact is a 1997 science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis, based on the 1985 novel by Carl Sagan. It stars Jodie Foster as a SETI scientist who finds evidence of extraterrestrial life and is chosen to make first contact. It deals with religion and science and what it means to find out were not alone in the universe.

3. Blindsight (2006 Science Fiction Novel)

A derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn’t want to meet?
Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can’t feel his own flesh. Send a pacifist warrior and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they’ve been sent to find—but you’d give anything for that to be true, if only you knew what was waiting for them.

4. The Arrival (2016 Film)

Twelve extraterrestrial spacecraft hover over various locations around the Earth. Affected Nations send Army and scientific experts to study them. US Army Colonel Weber recruits Banks and physicist Ian Donnelly to study craft above Montana. Banks and Donnelly make contact with two cephalopod-like, seven-limbed aliens. who are they what do they want can we trust them?

These are some examples of stories with similar premises which should serve as good basis for a story like this

prompter: I think that's great, but I'd like to hear another suggestion for an alternative storyline from you.

assistant: The SETI institute implements a new deep learning algorithm allowing them to find previously unidentified techno-signatures in vast databases of radio data. A promising newly detected signal leads to an archeological dig and the discovery of an ancient extraterrestrial machine. Experts speculate as to the origin of such a machine. Matching radio signals are soon found emanating from the Cygnus constellation. A month and a half later it is confirmed that these signals are quickly increasing in strength. A group out of JPL's advanced research division believes they have evidence that this machine is a Von Neumann Probe, a self-replicating spacecraft and a beacon to something in the Cygnus constellation...

assistant: A good plot would be how a misfit human fits in well with the alien group and how a misfit alien finds his place among the humans and how they both react when the confrontation between aliens and humans occurs

prompter: That's a good idea. Can you help me brainstorm why these misfits would feel most comfortable in the other population?

prompter: Can you give me more detailed example?