The Chatbots feature of the Ayfie Personal Assistant is a versatile tool for enhancing user interaction and automating routine tasks. This feature empowers users to tailor the AI's functionality to meet specific needs, whether for customer service, information retrieval, or internal support. Chatbots can be designed to perform specific tasks, such as answering FAQs or providing technical support.

Comparison to Instructions

At its core, the Chatbots are similar to - but significantly more powerful than - Instructions . However, there is a number of differences to be aware of :

• Premium licensing: While Instructions are available to all users, Chatbots are licensed as a premium add-on. For Personal Assistant integration in Locator, your license specifies the maximum number of chatbots that can be defined in your environment at the same time.

• Use of documents instead of Contexts: Where Instructions can use relatively short Contexts to extend their knowledge base, Chatbots can be directly provided with documents (in all supported formats) for the same purpose.

• Collaboration: Where Instructions are individual to the user who created them, Chatbots can be shared across your organization.

• Access control: While all your users can use existing Chatbots, they need to be granted elevated access privileges before they can alter them or create new ones.

• External integrations: Chatbots support embedding in external websites to serve your users or customers there directly. The necessary technical documentation is available at Integrating Chatbots in third-party applications

Creating New Chatbots

To create a new chatbot, navigate to the Chatbots section and click on the + New chatbot button. This will open a setup wizard that guides you through defining the chatbot's configuration

Setup

The initial setup page lets you name the Chatbot and select the Model it should use when replying.

Knowledge Base

On this page you can upload one or more documents that your Chatbot will use as its main source of relevant knowledge when replying to users.

Instructions

The Instructions and Context allow you to detail how the Chatbot should behave and what expectations its responses are required to meet.

Customization

The final page allows you to tailor the chatbot’s appearance to your preferences.

Publishing Chatbots

Chatbots can have three different publication states:

• Draft: The chatbot is only available to users with administrative access

• Internal: Only available for users within one organization. Access can be restricted to specific selected users or shared to organization as a whole.

• Public: The chatbot is available to all users within your organization and can be used by anyone through a dedicated URL.

A newly created Chatbot is in Draft state and requires action to be available to anyone but administrators.

After clicking the Publish button you can choose the publication options:

Chatbot properties

Each Chatbot on the list has a menu button that expands the following options:

• Access settings: Allows you to change the Chatbot’s publishing settings or unpublish it back to Draft state.

• Edit: Change the chatbot’s configuration.

• Copy URL: Copy a direct link to the Chatbot

• Code Snippet: Generates a JavaScript code snippet used for external integration - see Integrating Chatbots in third-party applications

• Delete: Removes the Chatbot.

Chatbot integrations

While Chatbots can be used within Personal Assistant itself, they can also be integrated into third party platforms - websites, messaging apps, internal systems etc - providing seamless interaction points for users. A technical guide for IT staff regarding deployment of Chatbot integrations can be found at Integrating Chatbots in third-party applications