The document discusses Microsoft technologies that can be used to build conversational bots, including the Microsoft Bot Framework, Cognitive Services, and Bot Distribution Channels. It provides an overview of how bots work and examples of code for creating a basic flashcard studying bot using the Bot Framework, including handling prompts and responses from the user. The document also briefly mentions using LUIS for more advanced, AI-based bots and includes a demo of a bot created with these Microsoft technologies.

2. Introduction
To Bots

3. What Can Bots Do?
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4. Microsoft Knowledge Cloud
Tap into vast information, facts & actions on people, places and things from the web or your circle
Microsoft Bot Framework
Build your own conversational agents, and connect them wherever your users are talking
Microsoft Cognitive Services
Give smarts to your experiences with cutting-edge technologies for speech, vision, language and knowledge understanding
Build and deploy your web service with Azure’s industry-leading Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft Bot Distribution Channels
(Bing, Skype, Cortana/Win10, and third party clients like Slack, Kik, and Messenger)
Conversations as a Platform Technologies
Microsoft Azure

5. Chat bots
Bots / Chat bots are
conversational
interfaces
They have a human-like
online presence
A bot resides in a
messaging application as
a contact

7. The Story
MHacks
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8. @Saelia

9. The Solution
Hackathon Bot
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11. http://portal.azure.com
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14. 1. Find your endpoint
URL on Azure
2. Register Your Bot
3. Save App ID and
App Password
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15. s /api/messages

17. Web App Settings:
2. MICROSOFT_APP_PASSWORD

18. Let’s get coding!
#BotFramework
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19. @Saelia

20. var restify = require('restify');
var builder = require('botbuilder');
//=========================================================
// Bot Setup
//=========================================================
// Setup Restify Server
var server = restify.createServer();
server.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, function () {
console.log('%s listening to %s', server.name, server.url);
});
// Create chat bot
var connector = new builder.ChatConnector({
appId: <Your App ID>
appPassword: <Your App Secret>
});
var bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector);
server.post('/api/messages', connector.listen());

22. bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
session.send("Hello World");
});

23. The IntentDialog class lets you listen for the user to say a
specific keyword or phrase.
bot.dialog('/study', new builder.IntentDialog()
.matches(/^ready/i, [
function (session) {
session.send(quiz.Terms[index])
}])
.matches(/^flip/i, [
function(session) {
session. send(quiz.Def[index])
}]
)
…...........
);

24. Session object is passed to your dialog handlers any
time your bot receives a message from the user.
The session object is the primary mechanism used to
manage messages received from and sent to the user.
bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
session.send("Hello! Welcome to the MHacks Quiz Bot. Would you like to study today?")
session.beginDialog('/user');
});
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25. bot.dialog('/subject', [
function (session) {
setTimeout(function(){
builder.Prompts.text(session, "What study set would you like today?" + quiz.Sets);
}, 2000)
},
function (session, results) {
quiz.GetTerms(results.response);
session.send("Ok! I got your flashcards! Send 'ready' to begin. Send 'flip' for definition. Send 'next'
for the next card. Send 'exit' when you are done")
session.beginDialog('/study')
}]
);

26. Different return types of prompts available:
builder.Prompts.text(session, "What's your name?");
builder.Prompts.number(session, "How many do you want?");
builder.Prompts.time(session, "When is your appointment?");
builder.Prompts.choice(session, "Which color?", "red|green|blue");

27. bot.dialog('/subject', [
function (session) {
setTimeout(function(){
builder.Prompts.text(session, "What study set would you like today?" + quiz.Sets);
}, 2000)
},
function (session, results) {
quiz.GetTerms(results.response);
session.send("Ok! I got your flashcards! Send 'ready' to begin. Send 'flip' for definition. Send 'next'
for the next card. Send 'exit' when you are done")
session.beginDialog('/study')
}]
);

28. @Saelia

29. Smarter Not Harder!
Using LUIS
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30. https://www.luis.ai/
Microsoft Cognitive Services
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31. Types of
Bots

32. Rule-Based Bots
AI-Based Bots
(uses NLP)

35. {
“entities”: [
{
“entity”: “flight_delays”,
“type”: “Topic”
}
],
“intents”: [
{
“intent”: “FindNews”,
“score”: 0.99853384
},
{
“intent”: “None”,
“score”: 0.07289317
},
{
“intent”: “ReadNews”,
“score”: 0.0167122427
},
{
“intent”: “ShareNews”,
“score”: 1.0919299E-06
}
]
}

36. I want to use Microsoft technology to hack and win a
Surface Pro 4
sponsor action prize
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38. Demo Time
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39. Sarah Sexton
Technical Evangelist
US DX Audience | Microsoft, Chicago
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• Steps: http://aka.ms/MHacksChatBot
• Demo: MicrosoftCareerBot.azurewebsites.net
• GitHub.com/jennifermarsman/MicrosoftCareerBot
• Slides: http://aka.ms/BreakingIntoBots
• Docs: http://dev.botframework.com