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Re: Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

#3

Post by buraksarica »

Am I missing something?

bot:Good morning Burak

bot:How can I help you?

me:do you know a great restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey?

bot:Yeah that tall boy named ty

me:Restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey?

bot:zemmel

me:what?

bot:I dunno. what's the matter with you?

me:Can you refer me a restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey?

bot:OK i love you babe

(edit: line breaks..)

Re: Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

#4

Post by denzil_correa »

buraksarica wrote: post #3

Am I missing something? bot:Good morning Burak bot:How can I help you? me:do you know a great restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:Yeah that tall boy named ty me:Restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:zemmel me:what? bot:I dunno. what's the matter with you? me:Can you refer me a restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:OK i love you babe (edit: line breaks..)

Try it out at Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir and see how it works. If it does, I suspect it is an issue with the data about Kayseri rather than the bot.

Re: Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

#5

Post by what_ever »

denzil_correa wrote: post #4
buraksarica wrote: post #3

Am I missing something? bot:Good morning Burak bot:How can I help you? me:do you know a great restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:Yeah that tall boy named ty me:Restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:zemmel me:what? bot:I dunno. what's the matter with you? me:Can you refer me a restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:OK i love you babe (edit: line breaks..)

Try it out at Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir and see how it works. If it does, I suspect it is an issue with the data about Kayseri rather than the bot.

Looks like it's broken -

Me - Give me some suggestions for restaurants in Istanbul

Bot - Boku no pico is NOT a good anime

Me - restaurants in Boston

Bot - Goodmeal.com.au

Me - Burger restaurants near Union Square

Bot - you are a foodiwe

Re: Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

#6

Post by hungtraan »

denzil_correa wrote: post #4
buraksarica wrote: post #3

Am I missing something? bot:Good morning Burak bot:How can I help you? me:do you know a great restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:Yeah that tall boy named ty me:Restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:zemmel me:what? bot:I dunno. what's the matter with you? me:Can you refer me a restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey? bot:OK i love you babe (edit: line breaks..)

Try it out at Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir and see how it works. If it does, I suspect it is an issue with the data about Kayseri rather than the bot.

I'm currently using data from Yelp, and chances are that Yelp is not too popular in some countries. Is TripAdvisor the go-to for Istanbul? I have toyed with the idea of implementing Yelp, TripAdvisor and Google Place for different countries due to their database.

Re: Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

#8

Post by 2340834 »

Perhaps a little off-topic, but would it be possible to make a chatbot whose answers or "personality" are based on somebody's emails and chat history, similar to the concept of the Black Mirror episode, Be Right Back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)

Re: Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

#10

Post by bkm »

paulvs wrote: post #7

https://wit.ai is good for making conversational bots.

It's a risk relying solely on a platform that hasn't determined its business model yet though. They could easily pull off a Google Maps (read: get 'em hooked, charge a lot).
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