Wit.ai Bot Engine
AI
conversational bot platform
SHOW HN2016
174points
47comments
#175of 2,264 in 2016
Top 8%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
8 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 34 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Strong NLP and useful product
From 3 comments
Man, i really love wit.ai, one of the coolest projects i've worked with. Unfortunately, these days i'm becoming jaded to X as a Service. Things like hosting or databases as a…
fizzbatter on HNHey Ar7hur, Awesome Bot Engine - thanks. 2 questions, if I can: 1. How much of an inspiration did the Telegram bot API make on your dev team? 2. What's the NLP back-end for it…
petr_tik on HNWith the Messenger platform being opened up today as well, are there currently plans to provide some kind of boilerplate integration between the Messenger api and the wit.ai HTTP…
kenpeltzer on HN
Story overfitting approach is clever
From 1 comment
I really like the "deliberate overfitting of stories to make them behave like rules" approach. It's the kind of thing that sounds obvious as soon as you say it, but only comes…
nl on HN
Objections
Hard to migrate away from; vendor lock-in concern
From 3 comments
Man, i really love wit.ai, one of the coolest projects i've worked with. Unfortunately, these days i'm becoming jaded to X as a Service. Things like hosting or databases as a…
fizzbatter on HN> X as a service allows you to get X with a lot less efforts. I think it's more accurate to say that it allows you to borrow X. It's very true that it helps to bootstrap your own…
taneq on HNBut that seems very difficult when the service provided is a black box of artificial intelligence.
mbrock on HN
Poor documentation and examples
From 2 comments
So far my experience have been terrible. Worse experience than the previous version. It is difficult to understand how stories work. It doesn't fit well with the Facebook…
xumx on HN(Wit.ai engineer here) Thank you for the interest :-) We haven't released any examples showing an integration with Messenger Platform API. In the meantime, please refer to the…
patapizza on HN
Bugs in stories and test flow
From 2 comments
Hi, sorry to report a bug (or is it me missing anything?). I successfully created the first story. However, the second story (basic, just text) keeps failing. Wondering what I…
alainchabat on HNSo far my experience have been terrible. Worse experience than the previous version. It is difficult to understand how stories work. It doesn't fit well with the Facebook…
xumx on HN
Requests
Ability to test bots without using the API
From 2 comments
How can I test my own bot without using the API? Basically looking for something like this: https://wit.ai/Francis88/Internet%20of%20Things/eval?_t=856&q=hello
melvinmt on HNWe're actually working on it :-) The F8 rush took us a bit by surprise... Shipping soon! http://imgur.com/hjswrHT
blandinw on HN
Predefined stories such as weather or greetings
From 1 comment
Hi! that's awesome! I started to play with it . I was wondering if there is any way to have predefined stories? I'm sure there is already a bunch of "weather" stories or "how are…
alainchabat on HN
Messenger platform integration boilerplate
From 1 comment
With the Messenger platform being opened up today as well, are there currently plans to provide some kind of boilerplate integration between the Messenger api and the wit.ai HTTP…
kenpeltzer on HN
Questions
Is Bot Engine tied to Facebook Messenger?
From 2 comments
How can users communicate with a Bot Engine bot? Since wit.ai is part of Facebook, I naturally wonder if these bots will be locked into the Facebook platform.
mwcampbell on HNBot Engine is not tied to the Facebook platform. It exposes an HTTPS API that you can use from anywhere. Slack, the command-line, Messenger, a VR app, etc. We don't make…
blandinw on HN
Will Facebook open source Bot Engine?
From 1 comment
Will FB open source Bot Engine too for the betterment of NLP and communities working around it?
aapusaam on HN
Does it work with speech recognition/TTS for VR?
From 1 comment
Does this work together with a speech recognition/TTS API from Wit? My use case is a Unity3D VR app
dharma1 on HN
Alternatives named
Microsoft LUIS.ai
From 1 comment
Isn't microsoft's luis.ai providing a very similar kind of service?
Joeri on HN