Creating a Quantum Computer Chatbot.
I normally do up these small and quick projects to help practice technologies I work with. Also to keep me a bit sane. For this fun little project I thought about creating a chatbot that can translate...
View ArticleVisualising Coverage in Conversation Logs.
One of the most important parts of a conversational system is to ensure that your end users are getting the most benefit out of it. To do this requires looking at patterns in your conversation logs....
View ArticleNon-Blocking option buttons
This is a common request that comes up often with the new Watson Assistant. This is where you offer options at the end of an action which can link off to another action. Using normal options forces...
View ArticleDebugging your extension
When working with extensions in Watson Assistant just using the standard UI can be cumbersome to do deep dive analysis on why your extension is not working as expected. You can use the browsers...
View ArticleTime for an update
I keep meaning to get back to this blog but various things continue to block. So it’s 4am and I’ve nothing to do, so time to put in some updates. Blockers The main reasons to why I am so quiet. I am...
View ArticleBuilding an Action handler
Revisiting the earlier post on non-blocking options. One of the issues that comes up is that it can be messy to have multiple actions for a single function. The other issue is that user inputs can...
View ArticleConverting flowcharts to Actions
I’ve had to present this so often that I finally bit the bullet and created a generic how-to video. In this video I show how you can quickly create an action from a flowchart. With the following...
View ArticleConnect to WML from watsonx Assistant
This is a common question that comes up and there is no simple answer. So I have created this video to walk through how to do this. The video also covers a couple of topics. How to modify an extension...
View ArticleWorking with hex in watsonx assistant
Converting to/from hex in watsonx Assistant is easy if you use an extension. If you don’t have that choice then you need to get creative in how to do it. In the video I am going to cover the...
View ArticleMaking user journeys easy to create
User journeys are a beta feature that allows you to walk your users through on solving their issue, rather than having to read static/GenAI text instructions. As it’s beta you need to paste in JSON...
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