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Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by AmeyKamat » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 10:46 AM UTC

Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant
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Re: Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by pmontra » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC

Looks promising. Is there a demo somewhere, even only a video on YouTube?

Re: Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by AmeyKamat » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 10:53 AM UTC

MEERA stands for Multifunctional Event-driven Expert in Real-time Assistance. It is a general purpose bot that can respond to the user based on configured plugins.

MEERA communicates with the client software (which can be a web app, mobile app, telegram bot etc.) through a websocket api.

I do not intend to monetize this system. This system is completely open source.

Re: Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by AmeyKamat » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 10:57 AM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #2

Looks promising. Is there a demo somewhere, even only a video on YouTube?

There is a demo that is setup on AWS. However since most of the api calls it makes on the backend as well as data transmission on AWS costs me after certain threshold, I cannot open up this system for wider audience as of now.

Re: Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by AmeyKamat » Sat, Jun 08, 2019, 11:23 AM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #2

Looks promising. Is there a demo somewhere, even only a video on YouTube?

I will create an illustration of how it works though.

Re: Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by Sid_T » Tue, Jun 11, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

AmeyKamat wrote: post #5

pmontra wrote: post #2

Looks promising. Is there a demo somewhere, even only a video on YouTube?

I will create an illustration of how it works though.

Thanks, looks interesting. Example application or illustration would be terrific. Did you have a specific application or use case in mind when you began developing MEERA?

Re: Show HN: Meera – A General Purpose Configurable Virtual Assistant

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Post by AmeyKamat » Tue, Jun 25, 2019, 1:31 PM UTC

Sid_T wrote: post #6

AmeyKamat wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will create an illustration of how it works though.

Thanks, looks interesting. Example application or illustration would be terrific. Did you have a specific application or use case in mind when you began developing MEERA?

I created demo video for this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlDJMxemm3M