Programming The Helpful Bot - Automated PS! Help Bot

[Zyresus]

Hello all,

I have recently been working on a new bot, which is currently still under heavy development, so the source code will not be made public until it is fully working.
The bot has a module which checks for certain keywords in a chat message, for example, if a user says "How do I get a custom avatar?", the bot will PM them an answer which is taken from the Help room's /rfaq command to ensure that the answer is as accurate as possible.

I am currently in the process of adding more keywords and answers, which will take some time, as there is a lot of uncommon questions which aren't currently answered on the /rfaq command, therefore making the work more of a manual job, instead of copy and pasting the really common question answers.

I do not currently have an exact date which the bot should be finished by, but by my estimates I would probably say it will be most likely finished by Early-Mid October of 2019.

If anyone wishes to contribute to this project, feel free to send me a message here on the Smogon forums and I will be happy to discuss it further.

 

[Asheviere]

But why not make this into a PS server functionality? I'd be down having a help button which let's you ask questions to a bot in PM. panpawn had ideas for question answering AI before as well. Might be worth looking into.

 

[nui]

But why not make this into a PS server functionality? I'd be down having a help button which let's you ask questions to a bot in PM. panpawn had ideas for question answering AI before as well. Might be worth looking into.

Help room would very much like an integrated system like this. This would be appreciated

 

[panpawn]

But why not make this into a PS server functionality? I'd be down having a help button which let's you ask questions to a bot in PM. panpawn had ideas for question answering AI before as well. Might be worth looking into.

Here's that pull request for reference