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You are on fire! We hope you had success in finishing the basic version of your bot. As mentioned the completed version you get at the end of our instructions you get won’t get you a great grade( see the 2023:Assessment rubric for more information). Thus we encourage you to read through this section to get an idea of how you can extend your project and improve your grade. |
An extension can be anything and we encourage you to get creative! Feel free to add anything you think would enhance the user’s experience. The harder it is to implement or the more creative/innovative the more points you will get. Feel free to do something a bit bigger and even if it is not perfectly functioning by the testing time we will still award you some points if you justify the extensions and explain what is not working and how you could possibly fix it.
Here is some initial thought we had on extending the bot:
Add a Filter: Make a new filter by adding a rule and entity in order to sort recipes in a new way.
Add a Functionality or Capability: The bot is quite limited in what it can do at the moment so you could add something like:
small talk capabilities: So it could ask how are you and respond to that conversation. You would need a new intent, and/or pattern, and/or response.
reading the recipe steps to the user: once the user confirms a recipe maybe the bot could read the recipe steps. You could add a pattern, response, and a new page for this.
check if the user has all the ingredients: maybe before confirming the recipe you could ask the user if they have the ingredients the recipe requires so they can check before starting. This would require a new page, pattern, and response.
allow the user to ask to restart or quit: would need a pattern, intent, entity, etc.
allow the user to ask for a random recommendation: “Recommend me something”. This would require a pattern, intent or entity, response, and rule.
add a rating system for the bot to get feedback
Extend Visuals: NOTE in the visuals section we already talk about extending it. There we mostly mean aesthetic changes that should be added, when talking about the visuals extension here we are specifically referring to extending visuals functionality, i.e. adding something that makes the visuals more supportive. We do not recommend making this the main focus of your extension but it would be nice to include it.
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We can highly recommend more than one extension unless the extension is a large and time-consuming one. We will rate extensions on perceived added contribution to the agent. So multiple useful smaller things that contribute about the same as one bigger thing will merit about the same grade. |