Creating actions for the Rasa chatbot

In this recipe, we will add a custom action and greet the user by name.

Getting ready

In order to create custom actions, we will need to install the rasa_core_sdk package:

pip install rasa_core_sdk

How to do it…

We will first edit the configuration files, adding necessary information. Then, we will edit the actions.py file, which programs the necessary actions. We will then start the actions server and test the chatbot:

1. First, in the domain.yml file, add a special intent called inform that may contain entities. The section will now look like this:

   intents:
     - greet
     - goodbye
     - affirm
     - deny
     - mood_great
     - mood_unhappy
     - bot_challenge
     - hours
     - address
     - thanks
     - inform

2. In the same file, add a new section called entities where name is the entity:

   entities:
     - name

3. Add a...