How We Built A Bot For

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Built a Facebook Messenger bot that answers static FAQs and randomly sends cute cat GIFs using Node.js and the Microsoft Bot Framework the code lives in an open repo and the bot connects through the Bot Connector to multiple channels. Natural language matching comes from QnA Maker and other Cognitive Services APIs; the team cites a comparable chatbot with over 20 million users as proof that this approach can scale. The FITC bot works in demos and returns cards and images reliably.

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1. 0:00Introduction to chatbots
2. 2:03Use cases and examples
3. 7:41Why build bots now?
4. 11:43Conversation as a platform
5. 13:02Building the FITC bot
6. 15:46Microsoft bot framework
7. 18:52Bot development logic
8. 23:49Demo and implementation
9. 31:00Adding intelligence
10. 35:04Design principles

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