Oracle Magazine, July/August 2019
Mobile APPLICATION DEVELOPER Chatbots are not humans and should not pretend they are but conversations between bots and humans must be designed to be vivid natural and appealing to humans Alternating bot responses is one technique to apply to your chatbots to improve user experience Following the hands on instructions in this article you will implement alternating bot responses for a skill in Oracle Digital Assistant For this you will be using resource bundles referenced from the dialog flow and from items in a composite bag entity GETTING READY Below are the prerequisites for following along with the hands on steps in this article You need a trial or a paid instance of Oracle Digital Assistant You can sign up for a free trial at cloud oracle com You need to download and extract the resources for this hands on exercise to your computer Follow these initial hands on steps to start the service and import and test the bot 1 Start Oracle Digital Assistant in a browser by typing https your cloud URL ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2019 42 botsui into the URL field 2 Click the hamburger icon at the upper left 3 Choose Development and then Skills 4 Close the menu by clicking the hamburger icon 5 Click the Import Skill button at the upper right 6 Navigate to the downloaded and extracted resources for this article and navigate to the starter folder
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