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Ask HN: Suggestions for chat bot frameworks?
I need to develop a chat bot, and I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for a good framework to use. I've taken a look at this https://dev.botframework.com/ from Microsoft, and also there are alternates from startups like massively.ai, meya.ai and reply.ai.
Has anyone had an experience with these? What are the pros / cons, and which would you recommend?
- huwshimi 10y agoI know someone building a tool with https://api.ai/ https://api.ai/ integrating with Facebook chat and other APIs. It's been working well from what I hear. I just noticed it's now owned by Google. Edit: he also just suggested https://wit.ai/ https://wit.ai/ which is now owned by Facebook.
- steejk 10y agoIt depends what you want to do. If you want to access many chat apps a framework will make your life easier and provide some features such as analytics but at the expense of latency and inability to access any features specific to a particular chat application. Wit.ai, API.ai etc. are separate services to which you forward your chat responses and they send back a response based NLP training etc. If you're just doing a prototype, I would limit it to one chat app (eg. FB messenger) and interact directly with their webhook. You can also then add NLP through api.ai etc.
- wirddin 10y agoTry out bottr? https://github.com/Bottr-js/Bottr https://github.com/Bottr-js/Bottr