How to make a chatbot?

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#1

Is it possible to make a bot that can chat, for example if you would say Hi to it it would say Hello there! as a response.

If it is possible which I think it is how can you code something like it? I’m not asking anything like a bot that performs actions like creating things but simply a bot that can chat when said specific things to.

I’ve seen this many times before but I don’t know what language was used to create. Please link a code down below

#2

Have you looked for chatbot tutorials? I would recommend find such a tutorial and follow it

#3

I have looked around a lot for these kind of things but all I get is young people pretending to know stuff that only give up links that will most likely destroy your computer. I can’t really find any trusted links providing me information besides very hard to code bots for the bad purpose. I’ve always wanted to have my selfmade chatbot so a forum with a lot of coders seemed like a pretty good place to get a source where I can safely learn/copy the structure of it.

#4

Quick note: I don’t want it really complicated… just an example to show how hard/easy it would be to create a chatbot that could respond to only ONE sentence

#5

I hope you don’t mind me jumping in, but do you have any experience with coding? If not, it’s probably best to start learning​ a language so you can know how your code works, and so you can tweak it, or explain it if you show it to your friends or etc.

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#6

I do have experience with coding but I never really saw anything targeted at coding a chatbot. Only things that could be combined together to make a bot but I don’t know how to combine that good.

#7

its so easy to find courses about this:

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#8

Well what you define as easy didn’t work for me in the course of years. But anyways thanks for the answer!

#9

Just one more question: I do have experience coding but that experience is very little. Should a chatbot be something to start with now or should I save it for when I have a lot of experience? I looked into the file a bit (a file of one of the guides for how to make a chatbot) and the first problem already jumped up: I don’t even know in what language I have to make/save it.

#10

well, in the guide i linked to the languages are mentioned?

Chatbot using Microsoft Bot Framework -> c# and nodejs (javascript)

An interactive guide to writing bots in Python -> guess what? python

Often languages are mentioned, otherwise the tools are mentioned, you can google the tool, you should be able to find the languages

I have no experience with chatbots, but a basic chatbot shouldn’t be super difficult, what languages do you know?

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#11

I did read the Microsoft Bot Framework but I don’t know that so I didn’t know they meant is as a language to code it with, I know a bit of CSS and HTML(5) and I know how to work with CMD but that’s not important

Note: Thank you for responding to my questions normally no one does that :grinning:

#12

Also the main reason I asked how to make a chatbot is because besides I want to know how to make a chatbot I also want to know what language I would have to start learning to make a (chat)bot

#13

Also to be more specific in what I meant with a chatbot, I meant one that can behave as a user so like a respond bot that responds whenever someone asks for help (edit: I also know how Python works but not that good)

#14

Cmd is nothing, its some basic commands

html and css are markup languages, not scripting languages or programming languages

it explains your lack of understanding to make a chatbot

The programming languages which are mostly used in developing the bots for Messenger, Telegram and Slack include Python, PHP, Java, NodeJS (JavaScript), C#, Objective-C, Swift, and Go

well, there is your choice of languages. (There are more languages, but are mostly commonly used)

If you don’t know, pick python, its a relativily easy language

codecademy has python course:

http://codecademy.com/tracks/python

start by learning to program before moving on to your chatbot

disclaimer: Not sure i can be objective, i am human and i like python

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#15

Hi there!

I just wanted to bump up this topic since we released a new Skill Path called Build Chatbots with Python for anyone interested in building either a conversational bot to chat with or a dialog agent (e.g., Siri, Alexa, or Google Home) to help with a particular task :slight_smile: