Coze for beginners: Create your first AI bot in 5 minutes

Coze
6 Mar 202404:03

TLDRIn this beginner-friendly guide, viewers learn how to create their first AI bot in just five minutes without any coding experience. The process involves naming the bot, describing its purpose, and optionally uploading a profile picture. The development page is simplified for beginners, focusing on three main features: Persona, prompt, and plugins. The Persona represents the bot's understanding, the prompt is a job description guiding the bot's tasks, and plugins are external tools that enhance the bot's capabilities. An example given is using the Google web search plugin for finding recipes. Knowledge is another feature that allows the bot to reference specific information from documents or web pages. The guide concludes with adding an opening dialogue for the bot and publishing it on chat apps like Telegram for easy sharing and use.

Takeaways

  • 📌 No coding experience is required to create an AI bot.
  • 📝 Start by naming your bot and providing a description; you can also upload a profile picture or have AI generate one for you.
  • 🚀 Focus on three main features when creating your bot: Persona, prompt, and plugins.
  • 💡 The persona is like hiring an intern; it's the large language model (GPT) that will be your assistant.
  • 📝 Use natural language to write a job description for your 'intern', which is the prompt for the bot.
  • 🔧 Auto optimize your prompt to improve it into a more detailed and structured format.
  • 🛠️ Plugins are external tools that can be added to your bot, such as a Google web search plugin.
  • 🔍 Modify the prompt to instruct the bot when to use the added plugins.
  • 📚 Knowledge allows the bot to refer to specific information from documents or web pages, like a recipe book.
  • 🍲 Customize the bot to use an uploaded recipe book when providing dinner ideas.
  • 🗣️ Add an opening dialogue for the bot to greet users and explain its capabilities.
  • 📢 Publish your bot on chat apps like Telegram, which is the easiest platform to start with.

Q & A

  • What is the first step in creating an AI bot for beginners?

    -The first step is to click 'create' and then 'Bots', followed by giving your bot a name and description.

  • Can you upload a profile picture for your bot or have AI generate one automatically?

    -Yes, you can either upload a profile picture or have AI generate one automatically based on your bot's name and description.

  • What are the three main features to focus on when creating a bot for beginners?

    -The three main features to focus on are Persona, prompt, and plugins.

  • How should you write the persona prompt for your AI bot?

    -You should write the persona prompt in natural language, as if you are talking to a person, describing the task and how it should be done.

  • What is the purpose of the Auto optimize button in the bot creation process?

    -The Auto optimize button helps improve your prompt into a more detailed and structured format.

  • How do plugins enhance the functionality of your AI bot?

    -Plugins equip the assistant with external tools, such as internet browsing, social media, and image generation, enhancing the bot's capabilities.

  • What is the role of knowledge in an AI bot?

    -Knowledge allows the bot to refer to specific information in a document or web pages, enabling it to draw from a recipe book when answering questions, for example.

  • How can you test your bot to ensure it's working correctly?

    -You can test your bot by using it to perform tasks, such as finding recipes through Google search or drawing from a recipe book.

  • What is an opening dialogue and why is it important for an AI bot?

    -An opening dialogue is a greeting or introduction that the bot uses to engage the user and explain its capabilities. It's important for setting expectations and guiding the user on how to interact with the bot.

  • How can you publish and share your AI bot with others?

    -You can publish your bot to various chat apps, with Telegram being the easiest to get started with. You'll need to configure a bot token and then share the bot link with others.

  • What is the estimated time to create a simple AI bot for beginners?

    -According to the script, a simple AI bot can be created in just 5 minutes.

  • How does the bot learn and improve its responses over time?

    -The bot learns and improves through the persona prompt, which acts as a job description, and by using plugins and knowledge to access external information and specific documents.

Outlines

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🤖 Creating Your First AI Bot

This paragraph introduces the process of creating an AI bot for beginners, emphasizing that no coding experience is necessary. It guides users through the initial steps of creating a bot, such as naming it, providing a description, and choosing or generating a profile picture. The focus is on three main features: Persona, Prompt, Plugins, and Knowledge. It likens creating an AI to hiring an intern, where the persona prompt acts as a job description, guiding the AI in its tasks. The Auto optimize button is mentioned as a tool to refine the user's prompt into a more structured format. Plugins are introduced as a way to equip the AI with external tools, such as a Google web search plugin for finding recipes. The paragraph concludes with a mention of testing the bot and modifying the prompt to include the use of plugins.

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Keywords

💡AI bot

An AI bot, or artificial intelligence bot, is a software application that operates with some degree of autonomy, using AI to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. In the context of the video, the AI bot is being created for the purpose of assisting users, specifically in finding recipes, which demonstrates the practical application of AI technology in everyday tasks.

💡Coding experience

Coding experience refers to the knowledge and skill set required to write and understand computer programming code. The video emphasizes that no coding experience is necessary to create an AI bot, which makes the process more accessible to a broader audience, including beginners.

💡Plugins

Plugins in the context of the video are additional software components that can be added to the AI bot to extend its functionality. For instance, the Google web search plugin allows the bot to search the internet for recipes, enhancing its capabilities beyond just responding to user queries.

💡Knowledge base

A knowledge base is a collection of information from which an AI bot can draw to provide responses or perform tasks. In the video, uploading a recipe book to the knowledge base enables the bot to offer dinner ideas based on the content of that book, showcasing how a knowledge base can be used to personalize and enhance the bot's interactions.

💡Persona

In the context of the video, persona refers to the character or identity that the AI bot will assume during interactions. It's akin to defining the bot's role and how it should behave or respond, similar to writing a job description for an intern, which helps in setting expectations for its function and performance.

💡Prompt

A prompt is a statement or question that elicits a response, and in the case of the AI bot, it serves as a guide for the bot's actions. The video describes crafting a prompt as telling the AI bot what its task is and how it should perform that task, using natural language to make it understandable.

💡Auto-optimize

Auto-optimize refers to the process where the AI automatically refines and improves the user's input to better achieve the desired outcome. In the video, clicking the Auto-optimize button helps to transform a simple prompt into a more detailed and structured format, making it more effective for the AI bot to understand and act upon.

💡Google web search plugin

This specific plugin enables the AI bot to perform searches on the Google search engine. It is used in the video to demonstrate how the bot can find new recipes online, highlighting the integration of external tools to augment the bot's capabilities.

💡Opening dialogue

The opening dialogue is the initial conversation or script that the AI bot uses to greet users and inform them of its functionalities. In the video, the AI bot is programmed with an opening dialogue to engage users and explain its purpose, which is crucial for setting the stage for user interaction.

💡Publishing

Publishing, in the context of the video, refers to the process of making the AI bot available for use on various chat applications. The video demonstrates publishing the bot to Telegram, which involves obtaining a bot token and integrating it with the chat platform, allowing others to interact with the bot.

💡Telegram

Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice-over IP service that the video uses as an example of where the AI bot can be published and used. It is chosen for its ease of use and quick setup process, which involves finding 'BotFather' and creating a new bot, making it an accessible platform for beginners to start using their AI bot.

Highlights

No coding experience is required to create your first AI bot.

Click 'create' to start the bot development process.

Give your bot a name and description, and optionally upload a profile picture.

The bot development page has three main features to focus on: Persona, prompt, and plugins.

Think of the AI as an intern who needs a job description, which is provided through the prompt.

Use natural language to write the job description for the AI bot.

Auto optimize button helps improve the prompt into a more detailed format.

Plugins equip the assistant with external tools, such as internet browsing or social media.

Add the Google web search plugin to enable the bot to find recipes online.

Modify the prompt to instruct the bot on when to use the added plugin.

Knowledge allows the bot to refer to specific information from documents or web pages.

Upload a recipe book to the bot's knowledge base for it to draw from when providing answers.

The bot can provide dinner ideas based on the uploaded recipe book.

Add an opening dialogue to greet the user and explain the bot's capabilities.

Auto generate feature can write the opening dialogue for the bot.

Publish the bot to various chat apps, starting with Telegram for ease.

Configuration on Telegram takes only 1 minute and requires a bot token.

Once published, the bot can be used in Telegram or shared with others.

Creating a simple AI bot can be done in just 5 minutes.