AIML Tutorial: Creating a context aware multi-functional chatbot

AIML Masterclass: Comparing Two Variables

One of the things that is often useful to do in a chatbot is to compare two variables…

Can You Eat a Chair?

Here’s a quiz for you. What do these questions have in common?

AIML Masterclass: Telling a Story

One of the requests that people often ask is how can I make my chatbot tell a monologue or story and…

Introducing: AIML Rich Media Tags

Messaging has evolved considerably over the years, from text only communications (e.g., SMS) to much…

How to Register your .BOT Domain via Pandorabots

Browser Integration

Using the pb-html package, you can now easily deploy an application which provides a web interface for chatting with your chatbot.

If you’re familiar with the now deprecated AIML 1.0 system, you’ll probably remember how easy it was to publish your chatbot to a webpage…

Connecting your bot to Twilio

We’ve had a lot of interest recently from users wishing to connect their Pandorabot to messaging services like Twilio. In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how the Twilio platform works with apps, and how it can play with the Pandorabots API.

Dealing with Sensitive Data

Say you work in an industry like healthcare or financial services that typically deals with the treatment of “sensitive” end-user data. You want to build a conversational interface for your application, but you have concerns about using cloud services that might involve sending…

Pairing your Bot with an Avatar from Media Semantics

Media Semantic’s Character Hosting allows you to connect your bot to an animated cartoon or realistic character very easily.

You will need Pandorabots credentials app_id and user_key found on your application’s…

Putting your bot on #Slack

The Hubot project headed by Github is a highly extensible bot application used to automate and simplify development tasks. Hubot acts as a member of a chatroom, reading and posting messages of its own.

Introducing the Pandorabots CLI

While we already offer a number of tools for working with the Pandorabots API, we are proud to announce the newest member of our open-source arsenal: the Pandorabots CLI. This tool is designed to let you manage and interact with your bots straight from the command line.

AIML Use Cases: Part 1

If you’re not watching repositories on Pandorabots on Github yet, now is the time to start —

A number of free SDKs for the Pandorabots API are available in many popular languages including:

• Java

Bot Possession: A Customer Service Solution

What is bot possession?

Bot possession is a concept that you, as a bot administrator, can monitor your bot’s conversations in realtime, and “take over” a conversation with one of your users at any point.

Putting Your Pandorabot on Twitter

Introduction

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could put your Pandorabot on Twitter? People from all over the world could tweet at your bot, talking to it just as they would if they were chatting with it over the Pandorabots Talk API…

Using OOB Tags in AIML: Part I

Suppose you are building an Intelligent Virtual Agent or Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) that uses a Pandorabot as the natural language processing engine. You might want this VPA to be able to perform tasks such as sending a text message, adding an event to a calendar, or…