Bot Building - Debunking Myths and Hard Lessons Learned

Explore bot building myths and hard-learned lessons in this JSConf.Asia 2018 conference talk. Delve into fun code stories and demos uncovering best practices for building bots and NLP models. Discover common challenges, limitations, and top scenarios in enterprise bot development. Gain insights from personal experiences, successes, and failures in the bot-building journey. Learn about designing conversations, managing user actions and display, authentication, custom controls, and user interaction strategies. Examine five key scenarios, including search dialogs, intent and entity extraction, parameter validation, and dialog looping. Acquire valuable knowledge to enhance your bot development skills and avoid common pitfalls.

Intro
How do I make one?
Designing Conversations
Managing user actions
Managing your display
Authentication
Custom controls
What you want your user to do
5 scenarios
Bot starts search dialog
Extract intents and entities
Check intent
Validate parameters (date)
Validate parameters (location)
Bot loops the dialog
Couple of (possible) solutions