Ladies and gentlepersons, I'm excited to introduce you to my personal bot, built by @esthercrawford and @WhydoiNot! Among simple things like learning about my background, my bot can also tell you about recent articles, podcasts, and interviews I've done; can share Foursquare tips I've left around the world; can teach you cocktail recipes I've posted to BarNotes; can schedule 1:1 chat time with me; and can request that I hunt a product for you on Product Hunt!
This next evolution of Esther's EstherBot is a huge leap forward in demonstrating the very early potential of personal bots!
@chrismessina loved the demo at Botness couple of weeks ago and seeing it live today is even more awesome. Working like a charm so far, great implementation :)
How are you creating these bots at Olabot? Is everyone going to get a similar bot on messenger?
Hey PH! Essentially there are 3 problems I encountered with my last bot that I wanted to work on with this bot:
#1 Invisible UI
#2 Static content
#3 Switching between live + automated responses
I wrote about the behind-the-scenes story of how this bot came to be: https://medium.com/@EstherCrawfo...
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@bentossell@chrismessina@andrewett what you're describing sounds very familiar to Lifestreaming (an aggregate social network feed in reverse chronological order) which became popular ~2007. But perhaps you want a bot version that pulls from that dataset based on natural language queries?
@krynsky I was just about to comment that this brings up all the old debates we had about RSS vs proprietary/closed data sets for personal aggregation and republishing. I love the idea that a "bot is the new blog," in a way but hope important data sources won't get frozen out or cut off.
First thoughts:
* I like the home-emoji idea (for getting back to the start).
* I like the pro-active hints during the conversation of what can be done with the bot.
* Overall still feels a bit repetitive and shallow. Similar to how first interactions with Siri felt. I guess if the interaction isn't what you expect 1 out of 10 times it is still frustrating enough to stop forming a habit.
Anyone interested in personal bots should read Sandi's thoughts on the topic: https://chatbotsmagazine.com/i-b...
This is such a fun and engaging personal bot! I feel like I just had a conversation with Chris and was able to learn more about him than if I had 5 minutes to chat with him. The "Hunt my product" offer is a nice touch :-)
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Wow! This is pretty cool!
Allowing to choose between you and the bot as the first step is really interesting.
The "contact a human" in many bots is often a backup, not a real choice.
And this "Uber recommends", great idea! :)
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I've come across a few "personal" bots for influencers but this is easily the best use case of personal branding bot-style. Quite egotistical..I like it 😉
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Cool!
This is:
😳
🤔
& 😂
With words, for me a very great introduction to useful + funny personal bot 👏
Also the "request for a hunt" could be a highly demanded feature so great to see you included it.
Is it possible to improve it, adding features for example?
Also can you change its overall design or would you have to rebuild it from scratch?
And also, did you create a moqup/storyboard to build it or there is one "standard" with olabot?
Hi @chrismessina , thanks for your follow up and again, congrats for this great bot 😀
Looking forward for answers from @esthercrawford.
Have a wonderful Friday!
Best Regards,
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Great Project. Love this concept and I can definitely see it as the inevitable future. Internet is here to bring us all together but with all the social media noise we sometimes lose track and more importantly time and sometimes end up more disconnected than ever. We need bots 100%!!!!!!!!
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