YesNo Bot

Intention

Sometimes making a decision baffles people. What color should I pick? Do I say yes to go out this weekend? Should I eat ice cream? As simple as it might manifest, we have to admit - sometimes we could use some help in making decisions! Here is YesNo bot, who would help you answer yes or no question by giving you a card of a random number.

Process

The main body of the bot comes from the skill dev exercise we did for the class. On top of that, I implemented a Poker Card API, and utilized the random card drawing feature.

The bot answers to simple keywords like "what", "where", "how", and etc. To get a random poker card, users need to say "ready". Users do not type in the questions to the bot, instead, they think about a question that can be answered by yes or no (they can give the numbers an arbitrary meaning as well). Then when the card reveals, the even number will be yes and the odd number will be no.

Product

Reflection

The bot is overtly simple, and it could definitely be improved in terms of conversation with the users, better onboarding the users with what it can do, and more sophisticated functionality.