I'm very new to bots. I'd like to develop a quick/simple test that makes it possible for a bot (errbot) to write a message to slack, then view responses back to the bot from users on slack.
How do I go about achieving this? Do I need to write a plugin for this?
Apologies if my question is too general/ambiguous -- I haven't come across an example that clearly explains this.
Yes, you need to program a bot a way or another, Errbot is just a framework that help you do that (concentrate on messages/responses) through plugins and not on the technicalities of the services it is connected to (Slack or any other).
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My use case requires me to have users pick their desired voice for the autopilot questions. The thing is there doesn't seem to be a way of Dynamically choosing the Stylesheet of the Assistant (without actually updating the resource).
My perfect scenario would be something like:
connect.autopilot(SID, {voice: 'Polly.Joanna'})
I've also checked in The JSON Encoded Actions Schema but it doesn't seem to have a way of changing the voice of a specific Autopilot Action like this:
"say": {
"say_voice": "Polly.Joanna",
"speech: "Example speech"
}
The only reasonable solutions so far seem to be either:
create an Assistant for each user. (May lead to overloading Twilio)
have only one Assistant but update its stylesheet before connecting the user (This would probably lead to concurrency issues, right?)
Any other suggestions on how to tackle this problem? Thanks in advance
You are right, an Assistant has one directly linked StyleSheet and that is how you define the voice. You also don't want to update the Assistant with a new StyleSheet as that would likely change the voice of any calls that are already in progress (though I haven't tested this).
You do suggest creating an Assistant for each user. According to the Autopilot documentation you can create up to 500 Assistants per account. I don't know how many users you have that need Assistants, but that could work? I would guess that if your users want to customise the voice, they may end up wanting to customise other aspects of the Assistant, including the phrases it uses, so it might be useful to have an Assistant each too.
I don't have any other ideas for this though, I'm afraid.
I noticed that IFTTT.com is using a Google Assistant integration that allows them, basically, to set up for each of their users some kind of "trigger words" that trigger a call to a webhook. I searched a lot in the API docs and found no proper way to do the same, only ways to set up conversations or IoT interactions.
I kind of want to build something similar to the IFTTT integration with a way to programmatically set up actions via an API (not via the dashboard).
Is it possible to do or is this just a custom development Google made for IFTTT?
In my researches I found out about something called "Direct actions" but it does not seem to exist anymore in the Google Assistant Doc. Can you help me with that?
I don't know if my questions are very clear, please tell me if they are not
Thanks in advance for your help
Have a good day
Here's similar options to the IFTTT integration:
Create routines in the Google Home app. That will allow you to create custom commands that activate one or several actions.
Create a smart home action. It's a type of direct action, as opposed to a conversational action, and will let you directly invoke the Assistant for a subset of commands.
You could also create a conversational action. While it would not give you the same direct control, you can still run actions quickly by doing a deeper invocation, ie. "Ask my test app to do an action". It would also give you much greater flexibility over the input.
I've been searching high and low on how to make use of Webhook in API.AI. I'm new to API.AI in general.
My objective is to integrate API.AI into my Swift Application which i have already done. I want to get a JSON Object from a webpage and use those data to manually add them as Entities/Intents/Response/etc by sending back a request to API.AIand then create them.
Tried posting on DialogFlow forums but i guess it's pretty inactive.
The whole workflow is..
Integrating API.AI into my Swift Application for users to use.
I have the base of the AI now.. Intents lead to Entities in a sense whereby users ask for a type of study, and an Entity [Studies] is triggered, so meaning from the Intent 'asking for a type of study' the response would be like Science, or something. This reply i want to get it from the JSON that i mentioned above, from a webpage. Is there any way to actually set these responses? Create entities etc, with my Swift Codes.
I hope it's clear enough.. And hope that anyone can point me in a direction as i can't seem to find any articles or somewhere to follow on it?
May be its late for answering this question, but few days back, I came across a similar situation. I countered it and wrote a tutorial series for the same. Here's the link for tutorial. It might be useful for those who are looking to use API.AI, or want to integrate it in iOS project.
Building a Chat Bot having AI is easy
I am new to Slack. I can't find any integrations for an "alarm clock"-type integration, as explained below.
What I'm looking for is a reminder to post to one of our Slack channels on a set schedule. For instance: each weekday at 9 AM, our #bug-fix channel gets a message like "do your bug fix XYZ thing."
I've searched Slack's integrations page but can't find anything that does this. Can anyone recommend an integration like this, or point me to a resource where I might be able to find one?
Many thanks in advance.
EDIT: I've found an IFTTT recipe that looks promising, which I'll share here in case any one else has this same question:
https://ifttt.com/recipes/177138-post-a-daily-reminder-to-a-slack-channel
However, I don't know the Slack integrations ecosystem well. Other suggestions would be appreciated.
Just type this in Slack:
/remind #bug-fix to do your bug fix XYZ thing. every weekday at 9am
Setting reminders in Slack
I am not sure if you are looking for a generalizable alarm clock with static messages, or something custom. You can use Incoming Web Hooks to write your own custom integration. Create a simple script that you schedule as a cron job to run at 9am. If it's a weekend, your script can exit, otherwise it can grab the data it needs to post (from whatever criteria you want in your bug tracking system, or wherever) and send it to your Slack channel. If you search GitHub for "slack webhook" you will find examples for every language of sending a message to Slack. They make it very easy to send messages to a channel.
I'm currently trying to send emails from a Rails application and would like to check the open/click rates of these emails. (without using any web service) Is there a gem or plugin that I can use to help me find out? Or is it even possible to do this?
Take a look here:
http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-122920.html
I think the first mentioned method, detecting how many times an image has been viewed would be the easiest. Then again, these are not exact solutions, but I think an exact solution would be sort of a security hole (i.e. sending an HTTP request to a foreign server once you open an email).
Varatis is correct, using image tracking is the most common way this is done, and it is the way that most web services provide you with analytics on the e-mails they send on your behalf. Here is another Stack Overflow question that includes an example of how you might do this in Rails.