Show HN: Facebook Messenger Bot – Voice Recognition, NLP, Restaurant/News Search

github.com

57 points·hungtraan··9 comments

Open articleView on HN

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..)

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.

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

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.

The problem seems, the bot acts weird if it founds no data, or it really doesn't understand the phrase.

To start with, restrict it to a few countries where Yelp works reasonably.

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)

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

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).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com