Development Blog for August "Gus" Branchesi
I’ve released an initial version of my astronomy bot on Facebook Messenger. You can get to it by simply going to m.me/skygazebot The bot actually has more features than its Alexa counterpart, mostly due to the fact that API.AI’s natural language processing skills are better than what Alexa has currently. I will be writing up…
I’ve included a few things requested: Better Conversational Bot: Skygaze will now prompt you for what else you want to do so you can query more information on other objects. Deep Sky Objects: When asking for what is currently visible, if it is dark enough outside, Skygaze will ask you if you want information on…
The good news is I have already received comments and emails from people who like Skygaze. Based on their comments, I spent an evening adding the ability to store your location (zip code) in a Dynamo DB. Once you tell Skygaze your zip code once, you will not be asked again. You can clear the stored location…
