Digital Materials
Objectives
After this experience, students will be able to
- Design a chatbot that addresses a specific user need, incorporating key elements such as conversation flow, user intents, and responses.
- Customize a chatbot’s responses and interaction patterns to align with a predefined personality and user engagement goals, using at least one customization technique discussed during the workshop.
- Apply testing methodologies to assess chatbot functionality and user experience and use feedback to make iterative improvements to their chatbot prototype.
Questions explored
- What are the characteristics of an effective system prompt?
- How do small changes to system prompts impact a chatbot’s performance?
- What are the possible risks and benefits of using a custom chatbot?
Key Terms
Artificial Intelligence
- The ability of computers to imitate human-like thinking, learning, and problem-solving.
Prompt
- The initial context or instruction given to a model that sets the task or query for it to respond to or act upon. A prompt defines the scope of the response, serving as guidelines for generating outputs based on the given input.