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    Chatbots Life

    chatbotslife.com · Publication · on HN since 2016

    Medium publication on chatbots, covering bot building, NLP, messaging platforms and chatbot tooling, written by many contributors.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters cite it for chatbot design ideas, such as graph databases and NLP, a GPT-3 essay on parameter counts, and a viral-loop growth story.

    Stats for nerds
    19HN people shared it
    27linked in comments
    70story points
    Mar 2021last shared
    2017people per year2021

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Create a GitHub bot in 10 minutes
      1 person · 24 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    2. 2
      Ultimate Chatbot Guide to Leveraging NLP and Machine Learning
      2 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    3. 3
      Show HN: Demo your Messenger bot interactions without showing personal chats
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      Facebook Is Signalling That It Wants Messenger Apps, Not Just Chatbots
      2 people · 4 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      BotXperts Asked – with Barbara Macinkovic of Swell
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    6. 6
      Create your own bot for GitHub
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      The Need for Automation Using Chatbots
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      Top Chatbots Builder Tools
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      What Makes Translation the Essence of Intelligence
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2017 · Discussion on HN
    10. 10
      Finding the genre of a song with Deep Learning
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • mustafabisic1Aug 2017

      Sure thing man.
      1. https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/10-cold-email-tips-i-used-to-get-60-000-app-signups-dd928d86ca21#.h0s9l6wzp - was on HN homepage
      2. https://chatbotslife.com/how-i-got-100k-users-in-1-month-using-a-viral-loop-86a83b4509df
      3. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-you-can-land-a-6-figure-job-in-tech-with-no-connections-6eed0de26ea4
      4. https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-use-angellist-to-get-a-remote-job-53d33f62532f

    • yonixwMar 2021

      > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/#__sec9title

      Human have 86,000M and rats have 200M cortex neurons (x430)

      > https://chatbotslife.com/is-gpt-3-the-adam-of-natural-language-cf59656456f2

      "... the human brain has about 60 trillion parameters or about 300x more parameters than GPT-3"

      We are approaching a rat brain processing power so consciousness should really be discussed ...

    • shraremywin2Apr 2019

      This article looked pretty cool for creating a chatbot and using graph databases.

      https://chatbotslife.com/next-generation-of-chatbots-with-nlp-services-and-graphs-cd811a8165d7

      any thoughts on whether this might be a possible way of creating a good chatbot?

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