The document discusses creating a non-intelligent multi-interface distributed bot to serve as a personal assistant. It proposes using the Errbot framework, which allows building bots that can interface over multiple chat services and operate on various servers. Several existing Errbot plugins are described that could integrate personal information management, media sharing, calendar access, and more. The document concludes the bot could provide access to personal data and information from different sources through its multiple interfaces and distribution.

1. Un bot (no inteligente) multiinterfaz y distribuido
como asistente personal
esLibre 2020
Fernando Tricas Garc´ıa
fernand0@elmundoesimperfecto.com
https://elmundoesimperfecto.com/
@fernand0
18 y 19 de septiembre de 2020
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2. ´Indice
Introduction
Some Inspiration
Alternatives
The proposal
Some lessons, conclussions
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3. Personal Information Manager (PIM)
A personal information manager (often referred to as a
PIM tool or, more simply, a PIM) is a type of application
software that functions as a personal organizer.
Address books
Alerts
Calendar dates
...
Personal information management
Personal knowledge base
Personal organizer
Personal wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager
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4. Chatbot
A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an
on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu
of providing direct contact with a live human agent.
Designed to convincingly simulate the way a human would
behave as a conversational partner, chatbot systems typi-
cally require continuous tuning and testing, and many in
production remain unable to adequately converse or pass
the industry standard Turing test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot
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5. Chatbot
We are interested in ...
A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an
on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu
of providing direct contact with a live human agent.
...
But not this (at least, not much):
Designed to convincingly simulate the way a human would
behave as a conversational partner, chatbot systems typi-
cally require continuous tuning and testing, and many in
production remain unable to adequately converse or pass
the industry standard Turing test.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot
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6. Command Line Intervace (CLI)
A command-line interface (CLI) processes commands to a
computer program in the form of lines of text. The pro-
gram which handles the interface is called a command-line
interpreter or command-line processor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line_interface
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7. Everything is on the web!
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8. Everything is on the web!
https://diis.unizar.es/directorio/
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9. There is an app for this
Did I hear Super Apps?
https://agiletech.vn/super-app/
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10. A personal Inspiration
https://web.archive.org/web/20121128165446/http://www.fettig.net:80/projects/hep/
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11. A personal API (post inspiration)
https://blog.webb.page/2019/a-personal-api
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12. Maybe a bot?
Electronic Ultra–Intellingent
Agent
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13. Maybe a bot?
https://github.com/search?q=bot
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14. But...
I didn’t want to do a bot, I
wanted to have a bot
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15. There are other bots...
Almond
https://almond.stanford.edu/
Jarvis
https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis
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16. Starbotnet
https://startbotnet.com/
Be famous for ...
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17. ErrBot
https://errbot.io/
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18. errbot
Simple to build upon
Batteries included
Sharing
Community
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19. errbot
Simple to build upon
Extending Errbot and adding your own commands can
be done by creating a plugin, . . .
Batteries included
Sharing
Community
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20. errbot
Simple to build upon
Batteries included
Multiple server backends
Sharing
Community
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21. errbot
Simple to build upon
Batteries included
Sharing
Community
Free Software // Libre Software
https://github.com/errbotio/errbot/
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22. Some limitations
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23. ErrForward backend
A plugin, using the standard mechanism.
Using Command and Control (C&C) techniques.
https://github.com/fernand0/err-forward
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24. Parasitic infrastructure
Slack
Communication
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25. Some commands
forward, fw
https://youtu.be/lbIqqGYlIvM
listB
myIP
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26. Some commands
forward, fw
https://youtu.be/lbIqqGYlIvM
listB
myIP
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27. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
err-imdb https://github.com/fernand0/err-imdb
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28. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
err-imdb https://github.com/fernand0/err-imdb
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29. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
err-imdb https://github.com/fernand0/err-imdb
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30. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
err-imdb https://github.com/fernand0/err-imdb
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31. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
Common use: fw *foto
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
err-imdb https://github.com/fernand0/err-imdb
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32. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
Be famous for seven hackers!
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
err-imdb https://github.com/fernand0/err-imdb
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33. Some uses
err-pim https://github.com/fernand0/err-pim
err-buffer https://github.com/fernand0/err-buffer
err-camera https://github.com/fernand0/err-camera
err-social https://github.com/fernand0/err-social
err-calendar
https://github.com/fernand0/err-calendar
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34. Some lessons
The interface is important (CLI)
Concurrence issues
Not really interesting
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35. Conclusions
APIs are importan to access information. Web scrapping too.
We can have access to the information from several places
(mainly Telegram, IRC)
Learning and Fun
Contributing (modestly) to other projects
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36. ¡Gracias!
fernand0@elmundoesimperfecto.com
@fernand0
http://elmundoesimperfecto.com/
https://webdiis.unizar.es/~ftricas/
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