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The Messenger Rules for European Facebook Pages Are Changing. Here’s What You Need to Know
By: Angela Allan
Tags: Chatbots For Business, Facebook Marketing, Facebook Messenger, Bots, Chatbots

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

From December 16th, Facebook Messenger for pages in Europe are changing which affect how you use Messenger and chatbots in EU countries.

Now before you start panicking, here’s what’s happening…

First up, why is Facebook making these changes?

These changes are required due to upcoming privacy laws in Europe. All of the 30 European Economic Area (EEA) countries, which includes the 27 EU member states, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and the UK, are affected.

OK, when do these changes come into effect?

Facebook is anticipating a rollout of these changes from December 16, 2020. You can reach their official Facebook for Developers FAQ here. (N.B. These affect business pages with a Messenger chatbot attached and personal Messenger accounts.)

So, who or what is affected?

The changes affect:

💬 Conversations with people in the EU

🇪🇺 All conversations and subscribers for Facebook pages in the EU

👨‍👩‍👦 All conversations for Facebook pages with admins in the EU

Starting December 16 2020, these Messenger features will no longer be available to EU (strap yourself in, the list is long!):

Audio and video

Persistent menu

One-Time Notification (OTN)

User profile information, such as name, age, location, timezone, gender

Buttons (still supported on mobile devices)

Galleries (still supported on mobile devices)

All Growth tools (including ref URLs, overlay widgets, etc, apart from Comment Growth Tool, which will still work)

Custom Audience from Messenger

Live Chat agent information (who you are speaking to in Live Chat)

Web Plugins

Media Attachments (except images)

Persistent and Dynamic Menus

Typing Indicators

Sponsored Messages (As of Nov 16, 2020)

JSON ads and other Messenger Destination ads (from November 16, 2020), including Click to Messenger, and Instagram messaging ads.

Features with new limitations:

Buttons will only work on mobile

Quick replies will continue to work on mobile and desktop

Customer chat will work but it has its limitations, too — all EU users will be shown as anonymous or unknown.

Trending Bot Articles:

The good news? These are still functional:
Build an Automated Twitter Feed With Python
By: Sam Berry
Tags: Python, Web Scraping, Twitter, Programming, Bots

Making the Bot

First we need to consider how we’ll go about getting news links. The most universal way of doing this is via web scraping — we get the source of the page we want to get news from and search our way through it to extract anything we want.

There’s an excellent library for doing this in Python called Beautiful Soup. Get it with the following command:

pip install beautifulsoup4

This is how we can scrape the posts from Hacker News. Web scraping can be slow, especially when you have to load multiple pages, so it should be avoided where possible.

For Reddit, there’s a much simpler alternative. For every subreddit (e.g., r/Python), there’s a JSON file containing all of the data for the top posts and another file for the new posts. In this example, it’s located here.

Reddit JSON data

Let’s start by making a scraper for Hacker News.

First, we need to study the behaviour of the Hacker News site.

The start page for the site is just the top posts of the day — not particularly useful so far. But if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see a link that says “More.”

This link takes you to the next page, where the URL changes to https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=2 .

You can see that the page changes according to p , where p=1 contains the first 29 posts, p=2 contains the next 29, and so on. It’s important to note that p doesn’t ever go over 20, after which it only ever returns blank pages.

If you right-click and press Inspect Element on one of the post titles, you’re able to see the page’s source.

Pay attention to the source. You see the articles are in an HTML table structure.

Each title is a td (table data cell) with class="title" and contains the URL to the story, which also has the text title.

You can see another element too: <td class="title valign="top" align="right"> . This isn’t an element we want, but it is of the class title so will come up when we try to get title class table data cells. To exclude this element we can make use of the align="right" property and disqualify it from our results if the property is present.

There’s also a “new” page that shows posts by most recent submission.

The new page follows a very similar system; however, instead of p=1 , you must specify the first post number on the page with n=(number) . For instance, https://news.ycombinator.com/newest?n=24 displays 24 through 53.

This is all of the information we need to scrape posts from the Hacker News site, and it’ll allow us to get the source of all the pages, scraping all 29 posts from each page. You can apply this process to most sites, though they’ll vary in layout.

Now, we need to put this information into Python.
New profiles, teams, ways to inform users, and more!
Tags: Platform, Features, Updates, Discord, Bots

Hey Top.gg community — hopefully, you’re getting excited about the holidays coming soon. I'm very glad to announce our biggest update for Top.gg so far!

Refreshed Profile Pages

After four years of having the same project page, we started to experiment on what we believe will help you bring information to potential new users as efficient as possible. Compared to the previous iteration, we’re using the space around your profile to make sure the user gets the best possible idea about your project!

Teams

Top.gg has received a lot of new features that require community owners to monitor their pages actively. For a creator, this isn’t a great way to spend your time. To solve this issue, we’re thrilled to announce a new feature that allows you not just to add owners to your bot or server, but also admins, moderators, or just spectators. Each group has its own permissions, meaning you won’t have to worry about a moderator doing anything scary on your bot or server!

Subscriptions

Advertising isn’t great for your experience on the site, and we understand this! We launched a new subscription system that will allow you to remove ads, get a shiny badge, and allow you to customize your profile page on Top.gg! We have tons of plans moving forward for subscribers, but we’d also love to hear what you think!

Check it out now by clicking here!

Announcements

A large portion of a communities’ growth comes directly from Top.gg, and not everyone might join your server! So, to spread your message as far as we can, we added announcements on your community page to show that your server or bot is filled with life! Use it to communicate for example; downtime, events, updates, or whatever else you’d like to share!
How to create a Telegram bot using java?
By: Viral Vaghela
Tags: API, Java8, Java, Telegram Bot, Bots

Hello developers, in this post I will explain to you How you can create a telegram bot using java?

Get API Token

So first Go to the telegram and search Bot Father.

Bot father is used to creating a bot, manage existing bots, changes settings, and delete a bot.

You have to enter the of your bot, and it’s always unique. after creating the bot you will get API Token (Do not share this with anyone).

Create a Java Maven Project.

Open your IDE and create a Java Maven project.

in the pom.xml add the java-telegram-bot-API dependency.

Now create a MainClass and inside main() method write following code to create an object of your MyBot class and register it and then create a MyBot.Java

MyBot class will extend TelegramLongPollingBot.

Now you have to implement methods

@Override

public void onUpdateReceived(Update update) {



}



@Override

public String getBotUsername() {

return null;

}



@Override

public String getBotToken() {

return null;

}

Add token and username

Inside getBotUserName( ) replace null with the name of your Bot and paste your token in the return statement of getBotToken( ).Get a message from the Bot

When the user sends a message to the bot, it will receive in the onUpdateReceived( ),

to print the message on the console you can write the following code

System.out.println(update.getMessage().getText());

How to Send Message to the user?

Create a object of SendMessage

SendMessage sendMessage = new SendMessage(); sendMessage.setText("Hii ")

try {

sendMessage.setChatId(update.getMessage().getChatId());

execute(sendMessage);

} catch (TelegramApiException e) {

e.printStackTrace();

}

inside the setText( ), you can write your message. and set Chat ID using setChatID()

execute() will send a message to the user, don’t forget to write this code inside the try-catch block, because it may throw an exception.

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New Android Accessibility Feature Alerts You to the Sounds You Don’t Hear
By: Tapaan Chauhan
Tags: Voices, Gadgets, Google, Voice Assistant, Bots

Android gadgets will inform their owners whether its receivers get the sound of an infant crying, dog barking, or faucet running. The new Sound Notifications Accessibility highlight is intended to keep the individuals who might not hear those clamors advised of the circumstance around them. It’s the most recent component of Google’s advancement of open tech during International Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month.

SOUND NOTIFICATIONS

At the point when Sound Notifications are initiated physically in the settings menu, the Android gadget’s receiver turns on, and tunes in for any of the ten “basic sounds” Google has assigned as ready commendable. The clamors incorporate cautions, apparatuses blaring, individuals thumping on the entryway, and the previously mentioned youngsters and canines. The identification, examination, cautions, and course of events report all occur on the gadget, with no cloud requirement. Sound Notifications serve to draw in the client’s consideration with an alarm like you may get for an instant message, with various alternatives accessible if it’s on a telephone or a smartwatch. The watch alternative is incredibly helpful for when somebody with a hearing disability is sleeping.

Sound Notifications performs very nearly a converse of the commotion dropping innovation Google added to the Meet informing stage, which likewise identifies superfluous sounds, yet intentionally alters them out from the trade. The ongoing cautions of those commotions are likewise gathered into a timetable for the client to glance through, spotting when alarms are sent. That way, the client can perceive how they might be connected. For example, in the timetable aside, it would seem that a smoke caution made a dog beginning barking, and might be identified with the device that started signalling before long.
How I got to have an automated forex trading bot that works well.
By: Rachit Tech
Tags: Trading Bot, Fiverr, Fiverr Gig, Cryptocurrency, Bots

Are You Ready to Hand Your Trading Over to a Forex Robot?

A forex robot is forex trading software that automates trading decisions. The most popular robots for retail traders are built around the MetaTrader platform. These robots run on MetaTrader as “expert advisers” and they can do just about anything, from giving you a signal to place a trade, to placing and managing the trade for you automatically.

Pros and Cons

If you have a forex strategy that’s strictly mechanical and that doesn’t require a human in the decision-making process, you can program your forex robot to trade for you 24 hours a day.

Many companies create and sell forex robots, but be careful who you deal with if you’re in the market to buy one. It’s not uncommon for a company to spring up overnight and start selling an “instant riches” forex robot, including a money back guarantee, only to disappear in about 45 days or so.

The majority of made-for-purchase forex robots are not profitable, so please do your research first if you’re planning on purchasing one. It’s best to be wary because there’s a great deal of curve-fitting or data-mining bias in the made-for-purchase offerings.

Data-Mining Bias

Data-mining bias is the unspoken enemy of many traders who purchase forex robots. It refers to the process of “cherry picking” the best backtest out of hundreds or more and presenting that backtest as the likely outcome for the purchaser of the forex robot.

David Aronson is one of the leaders of the fight to make investors aware of data-mining bias. Aronson has written an excellent and detailed book titled Evidence-Based Technical Analysis. Among many other good arguments, he asserts that the systems or indicators that are said to be the best performers or most accurate predictors of future performance are likely false conclusions. The finding of the outlier is often proved by looking at one data set and not testing that indicator over multiple cycles or the environment.

Successful Robots

There are some successful robots out there, but be aware of the data-mining bias that is front and center of most made-for-purchase systems. Typically, these systems maintain an edge and manage risk successfully. They’re less about high win rates and more about position sizing and cutting losses quickly.

If there was ever a good example of the meaning of “buyer beware,” this is it. The phrase is extremely applicable to forex robots. When you’re thinking about buying a system, ask yourself, “If it works so well, why is it being sold at such a discount?” Altruism is typically not the intention. Sub-par systems are often sold as soon as a data-mined outcome can be put together so an uneducated buyer can purchase the code.

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How do I make a discord bot ping me when it responds?
By: Erin Skidds
Tags: Learning, JavaScript, Programming, Discord, Bots

Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash

This is a fantastic feature of Discord bots. You will want to read this, if you already have your bot set up. If you do not have it set up, please check out this article.

This is what you should have in your index.js if you completed the last article:

const Discord = require('discord.js');

const client = new Discord.Client(); client.on('ready', () => {

console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`);

}); client.on('message', msg => {

if (message.content === 'ping') {

message.channel.send('Pong!');

}

}); client.login('token');

In this article, we will make the bot reply to you. It is very simple.

You just need to change this line: message.channel.send('Pong!'); to this: message.reply('Pong!');

So your file should look like this:

const Discord = require('discord.js');

const client = new Discord.Client(); client.on('ready', () => {

console.log(`Logged in as ${client.user.tag}!`);

}); client.on('message', msg => {

if (message.content === 'ping') {

message.reply('Pong!');

}

}); client.login('token');

Now you want to test your bot. Save the file. Run it by using node index.js and then say ping in your server and the bot should reply to you.

Congrats!
Echo messages from LINE chat to Slack
Tags: Bots, Slackbot, Line

Pass messages to Slack channel whenever the bot receives a message

Now, we will use Node.js to write the message passing part. Create a new folder and download index.js, package-lock.json, and package.json from the following github link:

To setup the configuration easily, we will create a file named .env in the same folder. We then declare our channel_secret, channel_access_token, and intended port.

We also need to install the some packages. We can type the following commands in terminal:

npm install # download line-sdk listed in package.json

npm install dotenv # for enabling the file .env

npm install node-fetch # for posting api

Great 👊 Let’s rewrite codes in index.js for posting messages to slack whenever the LINE bot receives a message:

Last step is to run this Node.js server in a place where we can get a public url (It must use https. LINE’s webhook does not accept http 😧) You choose between:

export your localhost ip using ngrok.

use firebase function, which is highly recommended since it is easy and fast to setup for production.

In my case, I run it on Google Cloud Platform, where I already setup an apache server to host another website. (Yes, running node.js server and apache server on the same machine was such an arduous work 🙀 I’ve shared my experience in this post 👉 Run Node.js application on Apache server)

In either method, you may start your node.js server by typing this command in the terminal:

node .

Then verify your webhook in LINE’s developer console with your public url (Mine is the GCP machine):

TADA! That’s all 🎊🎊🎊 Now all the messages received by your LINE bot, either texts you directly send to it or those it eavesdrops in the group’s chatroom, will be sent to our slack channel 🙌
Guía para Elegir la Aplicación de Mensajería Adecuada
By: Jonathan Valencia
Tags: Bots, Digital Transformation, Conversational UI, Messaging

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New Alexa Care Hub Keeps a Remote Eye on Older Relatives
By: Tapaan Chauhan
Tags: Alexa, Smart Home, Voice Assistant, Bots, Amazon Echo

Once Care Hub is set up, you’ll be able to access a feed of all your loved ones’ interactions with an Echo device or other connected smart home device. This lets you know what they’re doing and what room of the home they’re in. You can also set up a feature to alert you if no activity is detected by a particular time of day. When people are separated for safety reasons, the Care Hub is an excellent option for staying connected that allows you to check in on loved ones without violating their privacy. While the Care Hub isn’t the same as seeing someone in person, it can provide peace of mind when you have elderly parents or relatives that live alone.

Trending Bot Articles:

This isn’t Amazon’s first foray into the world of health-focused devices. The company has introduced multiple connected products like the Halo, a fitness tracking band. Amazon also purchased PillPack in 2018 and has a slew of Alexa Skills focused on providing telemedicine to people at home.

Alexa, combined with smart bulbs and other smart home devices, makes living alone much safer for the elderly. Rather than wandering through a darkened room to find the light switch, all your loved one has to do is ask Alexa to turn on the lights. While Alexa still can’t call 911, the ability to call a trusted contact for help is one step closer in the right direction. Thanks to Care Hub, you can help those you love even if you are far away.

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How Co-Bots can help us to understand the pandemic
Tags: Medicine, AI, Data Visualization, Cobot, Bots

Robots have been capturing humanity’s imagination for quite some time: from science fiction to becoming an integral part of our daily existence, there’s almost no area of life that’s been left untouched by our technological counterparts.

A revolution of this sort is bound to be met with enthusiasm but also with a hearty dose of fear and skepticism. So there’s little wonder that even those of us working in creative, tech savvy industries worry that robots might eventually outperform us and steal our jobs.

However, this competitive mindset is making way to a new, collaborative one, where we don’t have to pick sides and define robots neither as friends, nor foes. But as colleagues.

Across fields like medicine, machine technique and human direction are now working together towards greater precision, each to the best of their abilities.

From robots performing surgeries alongside doctors or contributing to more effective medical investigations, to caregiving or remote consults, robots have really made their mark in the medical field.

There are exciting developments in terms of diagnosis accuracy, for example, with deep learning algorithms interpreting pathology images. In a 2016 collaboration between Google and the NHS, artificial intelligence outperformed doctors in breast cancer screening. But things get even more interesting when combined analysis done by both pathologists and machine learning leads to an even higher accuracy in results. So, there truly is strength in numbers (and in collaborating).

This goes beyond the usual suspects, like science or the automotive industry, reaching the creative fields as well.

RADAR, the world’s first automated local news agency, matches reporters with tech to get more stories published faster, to an unprecedented scale. More precisely 180.000 articles were filed by 6 reporters, in one year’s time, with the help of automated tools propelling their narrative skills.

Recently, Open AI released their third generation language model, GPT-3, that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. Its applications range from an AI able to write an entire article with only a title and a small paragraph as input, to one able to understand a legal contract and explain it to a second grader.

Maintaining the focus on the creative field, Remove.bg uses AI to remove the background of any photo (and as of recent, videos, too) helping journalists and designers to completely remove rotoscoping from their daily routines.

“Cobots”, as these collaborative robots (and, essentially, coworkers) are being called, are slowly becoming man’s new best friends, optimizing and redefining the way we work and changing the way we approach design. After all, why waste time with long tedious procedures when you can have them done automatically, and focus on our real added value as human beings?

Algo, our data-visualization practice focusing on Video Automation, was born out of this idea of human-robot collaboration and software that amplifies our creativity.
Conversational Collective turns 3
By: Jessica Nunn
Tags: Conversational UI, Voice First, NLP, Bots, Chatbots

I’m totally amazed the Meetup I created back in December 2017 has grown so much AND is now global. We have almost 800 members and received an overwhelming response to our request for 2021 speakers. We’re ready to deliver our best year of programming yet!

The idea for this Meetup all started when I realized I wanted to learn more about voice user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) design. I’m a UX designer that believes #VoiceFirst will be the next big thing to dominate the tech industry. To quench my thirst for knowledge (and to make myself a more valuable asset — hello, job security!), I ventured out to learn more about this up-and-coming technology. In 2017, there was still limited information about conversation design available. I purchased a few books, and read what I could find online from the developers working at Amazon and with Google’s Dialogflow. What I learned through my research was great, but I knew it wasn’t going to be enough for me to get a job in this field.

Years ago, I read a book written by Seth Godin called “Tribes,” which gave me the idea to create this Meetup. His book inspired me to become a Tribe leader and to start my own voice Meetup in Austin, Texas — where I’ve been living and working. The Meetup would be key to connecting those interested in the conversation design with thought leaders in the field and give the community a dedicated space to learn from them.
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Tags: Belarus, Covid 19

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How the Covid-19 Pandemic Affects our Transition to a Sustainable Economy
By: Roman Reitman
Tags: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Covid 19

How will Sustainable Development affect us?

Well, if we want to build a cost-saving economy model, then we need a strategy. Perhaps pricing reforms by the governments to back clean energy or setting certain requirements to retrofit old buildings. Businesses can further be required to reduce emissions or commit to recycling waste.

Digitalization of work

My daily activities starting from simple mobility needs to travel will undergo changes. Behavioral change helps people to avoid increased health risks while taking their work home. Looks like everything goes online and fits into my single laptop: work, business, commerce, health, education, culture, entertainment, and leisure.

Inflation

A large number of countries, especially those of emerging countries or dependent on oil prices already see moderately higher inflation. On the other hand, during the pandemic, the dependence on cashless transactions increased. I think it’s high time for the public sector to lead by example and integrate financial and non-financial performance. I expect the world will become less globalized and countries will close up to satisfy their local supply chains.

Travel

Health risk concerns may as well reduce long-distance flights even after overcoming Covid-19. Reduction of air travel creates room for new alternatives and transport modes. Electrical vehicles are becoming the next breakthrough in the leading economies. Charging infrastructure and eBikes will also bring new trends into our daily lives. Hyperloops will replace long-haul flights and commercial aviation in the future.

Investments

Cloud services, Internet of Things (IoT), data security are the spheres related to remote working and will definitely see a rise during this sluggish period. Next comes health, safety, and wellbeing, so I keep thinking about what will be in huge demand. My hint is natural ingredients, nutrition, anything good for the immune system. Personal diagnostics and telemedicine

Risk Management

Awareness of system-level risks becomes more essential as they cause personal exposure. Supply chain vulnerabilities lead to management risk and cutting of spreads. New requirements referring to workspace safety stress the importance of reskilling the labor force for a smooth transition towards automation. Companies able to leverage digital toolkit become more resilient and better prepared for the transition to the sustainable and post-pandemic economy.
Alexa Mimics Android, Debuts New Auto Mode and Commute Routine
By: Tapaan Chauhan
Tags: Amazon Echo, Voice Assistant, Amazon, Bots, Alexa

The Amazon Alexa Auto Mode feature has been introduced that can enhance the user’s vehicle experience by allowing them to easily navigate, stay connected, and entertain the passengers while driving. The new feature works on Amazon Echo Auto devices and connects with users’ smartphones, and uses its screen to display information. The latest development equates Amazon Echo Auto with Android Auto and Apple’s CarPlay. The company says that the auto mode has four screens — Home, Navigation, Communication and Play — and a menu bar that allows users to switch quickly with them.

It allows users to navigate, communicate and play media while driving — just like Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. The feature uses a smartphone’s screen and converts it into a source to display information on four different screens — home, navigation, communication, and play. There is a menu bar that allows users to quickly switch between these screens, ultimately improving the in-voice experience.

Home screen:

This is a central screen that provides one-touch access to the driver’s frequent actions with shortcuts to play and pause the current music source, navigate to locations, and make calls. A simple tap on the shortcut initiates the action, or the driver can use voice commands to control it. For example, the driver might say, “Alexa, continue my music to play songs”.

Navigate:

The Navigate screen provides access to locations stored in the Alexa app. Once you choose a place to travel, the Amazon Alexa Auto Mode feature opens a navigation app, like Google Maps or Apple Maps, and starts navigation. Drivers can only return to the Alexa app by giving voice, “Alexa, go back to the Alexa app.” Besides, drivers can also find space only by voice. For example, “Alexa, search nearby coffee shops.”

Trending Bot Articles:

Communication:

Another thing that Amazon Alexa Auto Mode does is allow drivers to call quickly, drop-in, or announce their Alexa devices. Amazon says drivers can ask Alexa to initiate action, and the feature will read a list of recently placed calls and devices.

Play:

Amazon Alexa Auto Mode also entertains users as they drive. This screen is shown to the most recent media using any Alexa device. Drivers can now choose a song to sing on the playing screen, which provides specific control for the type of media and service (Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.) used.

The auto mode was designed to help you stay focused on the road with visual, large touch targets and intuitive features, including shortcuts. Besides, it also guides you with shortcuts for the most common Alexa interactions used in a vehicle, such as saved Navigating places, calling contacts and Alexa devices, and recent media games. Auto mode will be rolled out for Android and iOS in the coming weeks. It will be available in India, US, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia and New Zealand.

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Shrimpy Trading Bot: Track and Automate Your Trades
Tags: Bitcoin, Investing, Crypto Trading, Bots, Crypto

Shrimpy is a trading crypto bot designed to manage traders’ portfolios and rebalance profiles automatically and also provides a free-crypto environment where market indices and trading strategy backtesting are made very simple.

Have you ever wondered why so many crypto dealers give up trading after the first month?

From trading with the wrong tools and at the worst times, to quitting — these are all the bad situations you probably never want to end up in.

The good news is that there’s still so much good coming from the crypto space, and I need not mention that just about anyone can take advantage of them and make money with crypto trading bots.

So, stay with me because I’m going to show you how to shoot for the stars while trading with this bot.
Amazon Alexa Could be a Super Assistant but Not Yet
By: Tapaan Chauhan
Tags: Amazon Echo, Voice Assistant, Artificial Intelligence, Bots, Alexa

The new Alexa

The company says the Amazon Alexa voice assistant will be better at responding to multiple people. In some instances, it will be even smarter and ask the user and remember the answers to clarifying questions. Alexa is also being updated to change its tone in response to a conversation.

These new capabilities were demonstrated across a series of demonstrations. The first shows off how users can teach Alexa after it asks clarifying questions directly. In the presentation, Alexa was asked to “set the light to Rohit’s reading mode.” The voice assistant was able to understand that it did not know what this reading mode was meant to be and asked the clarifying question, “What do you mean by ‘Rohit’s reading mode’?” So Rohit answered to Alexa’s question. As a result, Alexa was able to remember and store the given information.

Another upgrade focuses on making Alexa sound more natural by understanding the conversation’s context and adjusting its tone accordingly. Alexa might place more stress on certain words or take more pauses, Amazon says. A final demonstration showed two people asking Alexa to join their conversation. After this, the voice assistant could understand when it was directly addressed, versus when the two people talked to each other. All of this happened without them having to use Alexa’s wake word in the middle of the conversation.

Amazon typically announces a number of upgrades for Alexa at its major hardware events, alongside smaller updates that appear throughout the year. Last year, the company announced a range of new features for its voice assistant, including a unique and more natural-sounding voice. A multilingual mode is designed for bilingual households, and a “frustration detection” feature lets Alexa apologize when it gets your requests wrong. Oh, and who could forget the special Samuel L. Jackson voice skill (which was then expanded this year)?

Over the course of 2020, Amazon also announced some more minor updates for Alexa. The voice assistant received a new long-form speaking style designed for content like podcasts in April. Just this month, Amazon announced Alexa for Residential, a new program to make it easier to integrate Alexa devices into rental properties.

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Bots: Information
Tags: Bot, Ays, Discord, Discord Bots

In this post, Caelan runs over information regarding Discord bots: what they are, why they are important and some of his recommendations.

What Are Bots?

Bots are human programmed AI’s made especially for discord. Bots are very unique and are a main part of what makes discord unique. Bot’s can do many things to discord and your server’s in so many good way’s. Bots are basically what make you and discord there own unique thing.

Why Are They Important?

Discord Bots are the top priority of making a server. Bots help you monitor, set up & make your server fun and safe. Some bot’s that make servers the best are Anti Raid Bots and Auto Moderation Bots. These two categories help protect your server and they make sure you server is safe. The best bot’s to use for a server will be stated below.

Everything Stated Below Is In (#recommended)

Best Place To Find Discord Bots:

1. https://discordbots.org/

2. https://bots.discord.pw/

3. https://botlist.co/

4. https://ayblisting.com

Recommended Bots To Use:

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~ Liam: https://liam.aysdiscord.com

~ Giveaway: https://giveawaybot.party/

~ MedalBot: https://medal.tv/medalbot

~ Dank Memer: https://bots.discord.pw/bots/270904126974590976

~ Yui: https://discordyui.net/

~ Member Count: https://discordbots.org/bot/membercount

~ ModBot: https://discordbots.org/bot/367798880689192961

I hope this gave you a quick understanding of what bots are and why they are important.
Discord Bot Basics: Generating an Invite Link for your Bot
Tags: Bots, Ays, Discord Bot, Discord

Hi there! In this tutorial, I’ll be going through how to generate an invite link for your bot easily; no coding or developing the knowledge required.

You’ll want to visit the Unofficial Discord Permissions Calculator (thanks FiniteReality!) at https://finitereality.github.io/permissions-calculator/?v=0, which then you’ll be greeted with this page:

Tick the boxes that your bot may need permission to have, enter your bot Client ID and click the Add button. Copy the URL in your browser once you clicked the button and that’s it. Really simple!

Sorry about the short tutorial, I will do better because I’m on a schedule and I’m the only writer here (will be hiring soon!).
The New Amazon Echo Show 10 Streams Netflix While Following You Around the Room
By: Tapaan Chauhan
Tags: Amazon Echo, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon, Bots, Smart Home Automation

Specifications

In the Echo Show 10, Amazon has given a 10.1-inch Adaptive HD display, which moves with the user. It has a brushless motor system, which helps the device rotate and track the object without any noise. It also allows users to interact with Alexa via voice command. It has a 13-megapixel wide-angle camera, which will always keep you in the frame through zoom and panning. Due to the camera and display, you can also take advantage of video calls through the Echo Show 10.

The Echo Show 10 is equipped with a new AZ1 processor, which processes the speech faster and makes Alexa more responsive. It also has a physical camera shutter, which is used to turn the camera off. By turning this off, you can also turn off the motion. Apart from this, you can also turn off the movement through voice command. For this, you have to say, “Alexa, turn off motion.”

Image credit: Amazon

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According to Amazon, it has dual front-firing Twitter and woofer, which delivers directional sound so that the device automatically adapts to your location. The company has also announced Netflix support for the new Amazon Echo Show 10 device. This means that the new Echo Show 10 users will now be able to stream Netflix content in addition to Hulu and Prime Video. However, no announcement has been made as to when the facility will start.

Apart from this, Echo Show 10 can also be used as a security camera. When you are not at home, this device can detect other people present in the house and send smart alerts with panning at home. Through the Alexa app, you can access the live feed of the Echo Show 10 camera. It also includes Zigbee, Bluetooth LE, and Amazon’s upcoming Sidewalk Network. Moreover, Amazon has added several unique software features like group calling using Alexa, Zoom, and Amazon Chime.

The new Amazon Echo Show 10 is priced at US $ 250 (approximately Rs. 18,400), available in two color options for purchase, i.e., Charcoal and Glacier White. Amazon has not even announced the sale date for the Amazon Echo show 10. Currently, it is listed on the US website with the tag ‘coming soon.’

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What is Captcha Code and What is Captcha Meaning
Tags: Tech, Bots, Captcha, Technology, Recaptcha

You have ever seen on any website while entering secure information like credit card number or login id. You have been asked to input some code or number seeing from a picture or to solve a simple math problem to move further. But sometimes websites don’t ask to do this activity. Many people think What is Captcha Code and What is Captcha meaning?

So in this article, I am going to explain everything about Captcha and its technology, so stay tuned with me.

What Does Captcha Meaning

The full form of CAPTCHA is a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. The main work of Captcha is to check whether the user is a robot or real. Basically what captcha does is manipulate or change the style of letters or numbers which can be in human-readable form. Means only a human being can read that format, not any robot or machine. So we can understand the captcha meaning that it is only to save from bots or fraud hacks.

What is Captcha Example

If I told you about the real-world example of CAPTCHA Code then it would be really simple to understand. Like you have made any online payment and before submitting you would have entered any code or number by seeing any picture. You have also seen some websites which do some tool work like pdf editing, word converter etc. These types of websites also use the captcha to save from bots.

Every online platform which does some sensitive online activity related to user information or payment information. They use captcha for their websites to secure from hacks.

History of Captcha

The CAPTCHA word was first introduced by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. The website idrive.com started a captcha system on their registration page and after that, they tried to file a patent for captcha system. PayPal in 2001 also started this type of technology to be safe from bots and spam. They used to display a human-readable text on their website which was not readable by machines. And if a human is using the website then they can understand the text and type the captcha code in the input box.

reCAPTCHA which is now owned by Google in 2009, which is a popular use case of Captcha technology. So Google started this technology for their platforms as well as open-source to prevent spams, frauds.

If you are interested you can read the full article of Captcha Meaning Here

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Samāpatti ETH 12hr Strategy Backtest
By: River Algos
Tags: Eth, Cryptocurrency, Algorithmic Trading, Bots, Ethereum

Welcome to River Algos!

I’m an ex-pat full time Crypto bot coder, bot investor, and former Theravadan Buddhist monk in Thailand. I’ve been working on Bitcoin strategies using Pine script for 3 years. Samāpatti is my first available fully automated strategy!

While the Backtest has had extraordinary results before fees and slippage of 27,369,764% over 247 trades since mid-2015 with a 45.75% winrate and 3.885 Profit Factor, actual results in forward testing usually do not match such success! I will update this with Forward Test results.

This Forward Test is Invite Only and may run up to 3 months.

http://t.me/RiverAlgos All Samapatti Bot discussion

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Facebook Shares Software to Teach Robots How to Navigate by Sound
By: Tapaan Chauhan
Tags: Facebook, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Assistant, Bots

AI assistants of the future must learn to plan their route, navigate effectively, look around their physical environment, listen to what’s happening around them, and build memories of the 3D space. These smarter assistants will require new advances in embodied AI, which seeks to teach machines to understand and interact with the physical world’s complexities as people do.

SoundSpaces

Leveraging SoundSpaces, Facebook introduced a replacement task for embodied AI: AudioGoal. Moreover, Facebook AI said in a statement that according to their knowledge, it is often the primary plan to train deep reinforcement learning agents that can both see and hear, to map novel environments and localize targets that emit sounds. With this approach, the researchers achieved faster training and higher navigation accuracy than with single modality counterparts. ‘SoundSpaces’ provides a new audio sensor, making it possible to insert high-fidelity, realistic simulations of any sound source in an array of real-world scanned environments.

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This Is Why Chatbot Business Are Dying
By: Murad Zamanov
Tags: Chatbots, Marketing, Amazon, Bots, Technology

Chatbots development path

The technology of chatbots takes its routes back from the middle of the 20th century. I’m sure there is a lot to talk about this, but let Wikipedia cover the rest. However, the aim is that while history might be quite long, it won’t show you consistency. Technology needs people sitting around working on the development and that comes from the requirements businesses might have.

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

Since consistency behaved like a lazy school truant, bursts of hype were taking from time to time by reminding everyone about chatbots. Sadly nothing happened in action. Just hope.

Sad truth

But what we have in hands? Millions of businesses, digital agencies, and so-called “startups” that aims to provide an exclusive chatbot experience for the business. The exclusivity that has never been shown in fact. The exclusivity based on conversational service providers like Twilio, Engati, and others.

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The industry reached the stage when technology stays apart from the businesses. While there are few giants that bite elbows over development, businesses behave like those dropshipping enthusiasts. Reselling the same technology by naming it differently to customers.

Is there a real need for chatbots?

I like a visionary type of conversation, brainstorm on how technology can shape the future, are we about to become robots and etc. Frankly saying, talks over how chatbots are irreplaceable in our daily life are taking no more than a piece of curiosity on those friendly evening gatherings with friends.

We might not even need that. I mean, the chatbot itself. That makes those conversations…not even hopeful. Probably hopeless. Unnecessary. At all.

I’m sure we all are living in the present by using the desired products right away. Liked it? Cool! Download, check it. Love it or delete it. A modern world designed in a way that you whether enter the market or die trying.

And while technology keeps developing, businesses are dying.

Dying without a single try.
GASでTwitterを動かすまでの手順
Tags: JavaScript, Bots, Google App Script, Twitter

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Automating Youtube views
Tags: YouTube, Nodejs, Bots, Puppeteer

Create a new tab

const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: headless, }); const page = await this._browser.newPage();

2. Load Youtube Website

page.goto(url, {waitUntil: 'networkidle2'});

3. Start the video

page.click('#container');

4. Listen to “On Video Ended” event

By default, the page does not provide you with the on video ended event. While it is possible that Youtube’s existing javascript has such an events to tap into, here we are just going to do something simple.

Code Snipplet for checking of video play time

We setup a check every 5 seconds and inspect the text for the current duration and the total video timestamp. If the values are the same, we conclude that video has ended. Else we register for the next check.

You may have noticed the video ended code calling “window.videoEnded()”. To subscribe to that event, you will just need the code below:

await page.exposeFunction('videoEnded', () => { this.fire('videoEnded'); });

And here on, the application is complete. Code is rather simple. On video ended, you can either replay the video or go on to the next video. Perform an infinite loop and track statistics on the number of videos.

Youtube has its own algorithm to determine what is a view and you will be able to track how many views are from you and how many organic. Track your Youtube analytics for more accurate details.

Scaling through Proxy IPs

Ok, now that we accomplish with 1 viewer, let us try to scale it. Through proxy servers, we could potentially act as a viewer from anywhere in the world. You will also like to use that to emulate multiple viewers from different IPs. To do that, you would just need to add args and the proxy server as the parameter as below.

this._browser = await puppeteer.launch({ headless: headless, args: [ `--proxy-server=socks5://123.123.123.123:1234`, ] });

Overcoming reCAPTCHA

Encountering reCAPTCHA from Youtube

If you are using free proxy, you will definitely encounter reCAPTCHA from Google. It will be extremely challenging to overcome it. It becomes much easier if it is a real human performing the task but you will not be able to scale your views programmatically. Still, it is definitely an interesting challenge to be looked into in future articles.