How to Handle Conversation in Chatbot in Python
When you develop a chatbot, sometimes for user experience, you cannot ask your user send messages like commands. For example, we want to build a guess number bot. We want the bot works like this: user: guess bot: From what number? user:: 25 bot: To what number? user: 100 bot: Guess a number between 25 to 100 user: 64 bot: too small user: 91 bot: too large …… user: 83 bot: Correct! You spent 6 times to guess this number. However, the common way we dealing with requests in the backend is one-request-one-response. That would be a disaster to separate a lot of handlers from the conversation. Why? Think about how to store the states? In global variables? Or database? Or Redis? Once you ask users one more question, you need to change the schema of your state, and the code becomes more complex. ...