neovim-config/lua/user/alpha.lua

local status_ok, alpha = pcall(require, "alpha")
if not status_ok then
	return
end

local dashboard = require("alpha.themes.dashboard")
dashboard.section.header.val = {
	"                                        ▟▙",
	"                                        ▝▘",
	"██▃▅▇█▆▖  ▗▟████▙▖   ▄████▄   ██▄  ▄██  ██  ▗▟█▆▄▄▆█▙▖",
	"██▛▔ ▝██  ██▄▄▄▄██  ██▛▔▔▜██  ▝██  ██▘  ██  ██▛▜██▛▜██",
	"██    ██  ██▀▀▀▀▀▘  ██▖  ▗██   ▜█▙▟█▛   ██  ██  ██  ██",
	"██    ██  ▜█▙▄▄▄▟▊  ▀██▙▟██▀   ▝████▘   ██  ██  ██  ██",
	"▀▀    ▀▀   ▝▀▀▀▀▀     ▀▀▀▀       ▀▀     ▀▀  ▀▀  ▀▀  ▀▀",
}
dashboard.section.buttons.val = {
	dashboard.button("f", "  Find file", ":Telescope find_files <CR>"),
	dashboard.button("e", "  New file", ":ene <BAR> startinsert <CR>"),
	dashboard.button("r", "  Recently used files", ":Telescope oldfiles <CR>"),
	dashboard.button("t", "  Find text", ":Telescope live_grep <CR>"),
	dashboard.button("c", "  Configuration", ":e ~/.config/nvim/init.lua <CR>"),
	dashboard.button("q", "  Quit Neovim", ":qa<CR>"),
}

local function footer()
	-- Number of plugins
	local total_plugins = #vim.tbl_keys(packer_plugins)
	local datetime = os.date("%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S")
	local plugins_text = "   "
		.. total_plugins
		.. " plugins"
		.. "   v"
		.. vim.version().major
		.. "."
		.. vim.version().minor
		.. "."
		.. vim.version().patch
		.. "   "
		.. datetime

	-- Quote
	local fortune = require("alpha.fortune")
	local quote = table.concat(fortune(), "\n")

	return "\n" .. plugins_text .. "\n" .. quote .. "\n" .. " I use Arch BTW"
end

dashboard.section.footer.val = footer()

dashboard.section.footer.opts.hl = "Constant"
dashboard.section.header.opts.hl = "Include"
dashboard.section.buttons.opts.hl = "Function"
dashboard.section.buttons.opts.hl_shortcut = "Type"
dashboard.opts.opts.noautocmd = true

alpha.setup(dashboard.opts)