How to create Chatbot ? – Let’s learn it.
Агляд: Virtual digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri have become popular among consumers. Not so long ago, industry stalwarts predicted that consumer digital assistants shall become the hot favorite of many homes. Their prediction cannot be disputed.
Another favorite cognitive technology topic for industry stalwarts is the significance of chatbots. Experts vouch for the massive adoption of chatbots in different sectors. Without question, this modern cognitive technology has already revolutionized customer server industry.
What can chatbots do?
Chatbots are capable of doing many things like providing instant responses to questions, recommending actions for users based on their behavior, traits and context, integrating into cloud applications and functioning as an interface between businesses and customers. Applications are endless. Business opportunities are limitless.
Types of Chatbots
Before understanding the nuances of how to create a chatbot for your business, first understand the two types of chatbots.
- Chatbots powered by rules.
- Chatbots powered by AI.
Chatbots powered by rules are capable of responding to specific questions. If you ask any out of the box questions, they disappoint you. Functionality is limited as these bots are as intelligent as they are coded to be.
The second category of bots are powered by AI. In other words, they have an artificial brain. Not only do they understand commands but also language. They evolve. They become smarter and learn from conversations with people.
Scope & Мэта
Different chatbots have different purposes. Therefore, it makes sense to define the purpose of your bot.
Let me explain. The last AI powered chatbot we developed was for a renowned 5 star hotel. For all intents and purposes, the bot converses with customers, parses their rich feedback statements and appreciates their thoughts.
Here’s a sample conversation.
Customer: The delicacies were sumptuous and wholesome. на жаль, the service wasn’t lively.
Bot: Дзякуй. Two accolades and one concern – Noted!
It can be inferred that we decided on designing a bot that understands the nuances of customer emotion and complexity. Not astonishingly, our client was elated.
Deciding the scope and purpose of chatbots is an important business decision.
Personality
малюнак 1: Personality check
Chatbots represent your brand. To create ever-lasting and delightful customer experiences, it’s recommended that every chatbot has a unique personality.
Do you want your bots to be angry? Do you want your bots to be romantic and patronizing? Or do you want them to engage in relaxed conversations with customers?
You wouldn’t believe how many millennials told me something like this – “H&M chatbots surely understands our everyday jargon”
H&M chatbots are built on Kik. Do you want your target audience to have a love affair with your chatbots?
Do the following 6 things:
- Define Age
- Decide Gender and appreciate diversity
- Choose an adjective
- Pick a name
- Establish a context
- Construct a utility
The aforementioned six actions are usually enough to kick-off the personality. And yes, personality depends to a very large extent on utility and context.
In case of digital voice assistants, accents and gender tone form an integral part of their identity.
Here’s my conversation with Siri
Me: What’s your gender?
Siri: I exist beyond your human concept of gender
Of course, Siri lets you pick a different tone. You just need to play with its settings.
Conversation
Chatbot conversations are of two types:
- Structured
- Unstructured
Structured conversations usually encompass an array of logical steps. Choices, menus and forms are factored in.
Unstructured conversations are usually devoid of logical flow of information. More often than not, conversations between friends and family members are unstructured.
Close-ended conversations are easy to interpret. Open-ended conversations are a bit tough to interpret. Chatbots should be able to handle not only close-ended conversations but also open-ended ones.
It’s a good practice to let your chatbots give directional cues to your target audience by suggesting tasks.
Here’s an example:
Bot: Hey Steven, Here’s what I can do for you
Tell a story
Make you laugh
Book movie tickets
Effective chatbots greet users, break the ice, congratulate them and engage in personalized conversations.
прататып
The next step is to build a prototype. Make sure to convert all logical task-flows to a chat.
Draft a script. Use prototyping tools to build a great prototype.
Here is a list of best chatbot platform to choose from or prototyping tools:
- Botsify: I love this platform for its easy drag and drop templates. It has smart AI plugins, integrations and machine learning capabilities
- Flow XO: This platform boasts of more than 100 integrations. There are several pre-built templates. You will fall in love with its awesome visual editor
- Bottr: If you are looking for a platform that lets you embed bots onto your online portal, Bottr will surely win your heart
- Motion AI: You can build great conversational flows and extract tremendous visual overviews.
- Chatfuel: This platform has impressive features such as content cards, bot elements, Natural Language Processing capabilities, bot promotional tools such as custom landing pages, button creators, і г.д.. You can broadcast messages and clone your bot.
Quality Check
малюнак 2: Quality Check
Once you build your bot on any a prototyping platform, make sure to test the bot. Let your users have conversations with it.
Make a note of all the when – і – where instances that are giving your bot a tough time.
Train you bot. Work around its learning experiences.
Your bot should respond to random questions which aren’t pertinent to the context with a well-crafted and polite “NO”
Заключэнне
Always remember that the target audience of chatbots is humans. So when you simulate chatbot personalities, factor in two vital aspects- context and emotion. To strengthen its personality, focus on words like “Hello”, “Hey”, “Howdee”, і г.д.. Prepare a list of such words and train your bot.
Keep testing your bots by adding new use-cases.
Prepare yourself for a chatbot revolution. The next generation of businesses shall incorporate interactive image analysis which paves the way for visual chatbots. The future is incomplete without chatbots. ура!
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Author Bio: Skyler Jones is a passionate content writer as well an online business adviser. She is the Managing Editor of StartupWhale, a blog which publishes profitable small business ideas for entrepreneurs.Her Twitter і LinkdIn profile.
