Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search (opens in new tab)

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57 pointshungtraan9y ago9 comments

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buraksarica9y ago

Am I missing something?

bot:Good morning Burak

bot:How can I help you?

me:do you know a great restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey?

bot:Yeah that tall boy named ty

me:Restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey?

bot:zemmel

me:what?

bot:I dunno. what's the matter with you?

me:Can you refer me a restaurant in Kayseri, Turkey?

bot:OK i love you babe

(edit: line breaks..)

denzil_correa9y ago

Try it out at Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir and see how it works. If it does, I suspect it is an issue with the data about Kayseri rather than the bot.

what_ever9y ago

Looks like it's broken -

Me - Give me some suggestions for restaurants in Istanbul

Bot - Boku no pico is NOT a good anime

Me - restaurants in Boston

Bot - Goodmeal.com.au

Me - Burger restaurants near Union Square

Bot - you are a foodiwe

hungtraanOP9y ago

I'm currently using data from Yelp, and chances are that Yelp is not too popular in some countries. Is TripAdvisor the go-to for Istanbul? I have toyed with the idea of implementing Yelp, TripAdvisor and Google Place for different countries due to their database.

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23408349y ago

Perhaps a little off-topic, but would it be possible to make a chatbot whose answers or "personality" are based on somebody's emails and chat history, similar to the concept of the Black Mirror episode, Be Right Back?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back_(Black_Mirror)

paulvs9y ago

https://wit.ai is good for making conversational bots.

bkm9y ago

It's a risk relying solely on a platform that hasn't determined its business model yet though. They could easily pull off a Google Maps (read: get 'em hooked, charge a lot).

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