This book has given us a practical introduction to chatbots through building increasingly complex Alexa Skills and Lex chatbots. We've learned about starting from a perfect conversation and creating flow diagrams to visualize the users' conversational path with a chatbot. Using these flow diagrams, we've built intents using utterances and slots that are handled in Lambdas.
We've improved the features and abilities of our chatbots through the use of S3 storage, DynamoDB databases, and external APIs. To improve the user experience, we also learned about using SSML to change how Alexa talks with our users, learned how to create cards to provide more visual information, and learned about search query slot types in Alexa for gathering wider ranges of slot values.
Finally, we've discussed a few great ways to build upon what we've already learned...
