One of the main building blocks to creating a conversation is by using a Dialog defined in the bot framework v4. Dialogs can process inbound Activities and generate outbound responses. In addition, business logic can run directly or indirectly within the Dialogs.
Security is something that developers tend to not think about in software that they write in the early phase. Security gets put off as something to address when there is time and guess what that almost never happens. As a result, applications are often the weakest link in a company’s […]
Creating a chatbot that is capable of a meaningful conversation will require language understanding (LUIS). However, if you are using LUIS and then parsing the response yourself, you might notice that it can get complicated pretty fast. This is because the response from LUIS is dynamic since the response is based […]
It is usually not enough to use only one cognitive service if you want to create a great user experience for a chatbot. It takes multiple cognitive services such as natural language processing and questions and answer.
In the post, How to Setup a Chatbot Development Environment for Microsoft Bot Framework Version 4, you generated a basic bot project. In this post, I am going to go over some of the key areas for that codebase. If you are already familiar with bot framework v4 then this post […]
Learning new information is something that software developers will find themselves doing all the time. It is necessary if you want to stay relevant as a software developer and keep up with the latest trend in technology. The problem is that with so much to learn, it is very easy […]
A chatbot is an emerging application of AI (Artificial Intelligence) that is becoming more common nowadays. Maybe you used one and thought it was useful and want to try to build one yourself. Maybe your company wants to have a chatbot to answer some of the commonly asked questions. Regardless […]
There is never enough time in the day to do everything you planned to do. Has it happened to you where you have a list of things to do and then at the end of the day, you barely got through half of it?
You have probably asked yourself the question of when or what to optimize in your app. It is not an easy question to answer because there are many factors involved in making the decision. There are always tradeoffs in software development and it is not any different for optimization — […]
Many software developers are uncomfortable with trying out new technologies. They believe that they need to learn something new all over again. They start to think back to when they started learning the technologies they use presently and think “I don’t want to go through that again”. The knowledge that […]
