Some users even feel more comfortable using a conversational bot than other kinds of interfaces. They can make your application more useful, more usable, and more natural. “Slack is an operating system for a whole new class of apps.”īots can enable new ways of working and entirely new classes of applications. My experience has been from developing a bot for getting graphic design tasks done.
There are even bots for playing poker, Jeopardy!, and oldschool adventure games. Examples include Meekan for scheduling meetings, and Nestor for calling you an Uber or finding you a restaurant. Many bots are now being developed for Slack. Some of the most prominent examples of bots are Apple’s Siri or Microsoft’s Cortana. Bots are not a new concept, but they’re starting to become mainstream. What is a Bot?Ī bot is a “software robot.” There are bots for all kinds of applications, some of which accept inputs in a conversational format to help automate a variety of tasks for users. By the end, you’ll have an introductory toolset for building your own useful team bot with a dash of personality. We’ll also talk to some experts in the bot space for added insight.
In this article, we’ll use the Slack API Node.js library to build our own bot, and explore Wit.ai API and other tools that use natural language processing to analyze and respond to human-inputted text. Typical Slack integrations range from posting notifications to more sophisticated and interactive bots. Slack comes with a slew of standard integrations, but it’s also really easy to build your own. One of the things that makes Slack so compelling is that it integrates well with all kinds of other applications and services - a perfect fit within API space. Slack is a messaging app that has exploded in popularity among all sorts of teams.
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