ROrodrodriguez·Aug 3, 2022Submission
Hey, it's time for Conversational BASIC
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botbook
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Oct 2021 | 2021-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2021 | 2021-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2021 | 2021-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2022 | 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2022 | 2022-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2022 | 2022-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2022 | 2022-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2022 | 2022-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2022 | 2022-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2022 | 2022-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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2 sourcesThanks for reading us! Our economy is doing very badly. But we are bravely struggling to establish an inclusive and democratic model that allows people access to the journey of digital transformation without the need to have taken or experienced programming languages. We are almost 15 million Brazilians unemployed in an increasingly exclusionary world regarding opportunities in innovation. Either you're IT or you'll never be part of building new eras. It is an arduous challenge, however, pleasurable to have you’re the offer between giants. Furthermore, being an open-source initiative and a constantly evolving SaaS is good as well. General Bots is a strongly typed package-based chat bot server focused on convention over configuration and code-less approaches, and inspired on Node.js, JBoss and SharePoint, which brings software packages and
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application server concepts to help parallel bot development. It is written in TypeScript and Python, based continuously on Big Techs technologies like Microsoft, Google and IBM. In a matter of hours, a bot factory is established in the cloud and bots are created as if you were creating sites in SharePoint or posts in WordPress. With the source code available in https://github.com/GeneralBots, or through our service in https://generalbots.ai you can start today. If you initially relied on Microsoft to elevate yourself to a Bots server status and seek help to become 100% open-source – that's why we're here. Our strength is innovation, but we believe in successful initiatives of the past such as inclusion through the BASIC language. Thus was born .gbdialog, a type of package referring to scrips in BASIC written in Word (pending the OpenOffice connector). Several of our collaborators were not programmers. They learned how to program in “Word” (BASIC) with .gbdialog.
Sometimes we call it “Word” because people talk: - To achive that dialog you should write a word. So people open MS Word, and write NewFriend.docx something like:
TALK “Hello” + username TALK “What is your friend name?” HEAR friend as NAME SAVE “Friends.xlsx”, name
And it would then be called by a new knowledge base line in an MS Excel sheet:
I want to create a new contact | NewFriend.docx New friend | NewFriend.docx Add buddy | NewFriend.docx
So whenever the General Bots receives a text or audio message which correlates with that phrases, the dialog will be called. Currently, Azure Search or LUIS are used as Intent engines. The .gbkb contains mthe knowledge base of the bot in spreadsheets, photos, videos and documents that are interpreted by the Reading Compreenshion of the General Bots Models (data science project that support the Bot Server). The packages .gbtheme allows you to customize the visual part of the Bot. The .gbot is a folder that contains the personality settings of the bot, whether it is multi-language, start dialogs, and more. And finally the .gbdata contains data in drive sheets that represent the database of conversational programs written in BASIC (.gbdialog). You can check out the Bot Book: https://github.com/GeneralBots/BotBook/tree/master/book. We are looking to showcase our work of the last five years and evolve continue evolution of the platform, which today integrates WhatsApp with Teams, Google Chat and Facebook Workplace. We believe that you can be part of this chain of good and create your Virtual Assistant, for personal or corporate use. Thus, you can envision the potential of the enterprise and ally yourself on this front that seeks to expand the scale of the social impact that we can promote by forking General Bots today.
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