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3. Basics of Bot Building

Rashid Khan and Anik Das1
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Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 
In this chapter, you’ll learn more about how to build your first chatbot and about some design principles. When it comes to the topic of chatbot agents, the important topics are intents, entities, context, and entities. These are the bricks of building your chatbot. In this chapter, you’ll learn about each of them and how to use them efficiently.

Intents

Intent is a term used for programmatically identifying the intention of the person who is using the chatbot. A chatbot should be able to perform some action based on the “intent” it detects from ...

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