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About Intents
An Intent is the Intention behind the message the AI service receives from the person speaking.
For example, a user learner says, ‘Hello, thanks for coming in today.’ The intent Intent behind the message is to greet the person/character they are speaking to.
An intentIntent-based agentAgent, then, works by detecting this user intentlearner Intent. So, instead of relying on specific input or set of key words, the agent Agent can identify the meaning the message is trying to convey. (And then offer a relevant, tailored response.)
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Guidelines for Creating Intents
An intent Intent is manually generated by the scenario author by supplying “training phrases” or different ways to convey the meaning of the intentIntent. The more examples you include in an intentIntent, the more likely the AI will be successful in identifying the intent Intent and returning the expected response.
For example - as an author creating the training “Greeting” intent Intent you could use the following training phrases:
Hello, thanks for coming in today.
Hi, how are you?
Hello, good to see you, thanks for joining me
Hi, thank you for making the time, have a seat
Great to see you, I’m glad you could join me
Good morning, thanks for coming in
Good afternoon, [Name], come on it
etc.
When creating intentsIntents, it can be helpful to canvas colleagues and friends on how they would say things to convey the meaning of the intentIntent. The more varied examples you can provide the better the intent will be.Intent will be.
Steps to create an Intent
Follow these steps to create Intents for your scenarios
Step 1: Create an Intent Catalog
Navigate to the AI tab on the project dashboard
Open the Intents section and click “Create”
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Give the catalog a name and click “Create a new catalog”
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Step 2: Create an Intent
Click on “Create” to create your first Intent
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Fill in the name, and a description, then click “Create Intent”
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Click on the Intent to add examples
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Step 3: Add Training Phrases
When creating an Intent, it is best practice to add a minimum of 10 training phrases (or examples of ways you may convey the Intent). Here are some example phrases you could use for the “Greeting” Intent:
Hi there. |
Thanks for making time for this meeting. |
Thanks for making time for me. |
Good Morning |
Hello there. |
Hello. |
Good Afternoon |
I appreciate your time. |
Thanks for coming in today |
I appreciate you making time to meet. |
Thanks for joining me |
I have something to discuss with you |
Click “create” to add your first training phrase
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Add the example phrase
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Add the rest of the examples listed above to this Intent. Create more of your own if you can think of different ways you may greet an employee at the beginning of a conversation.
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When you are finished adding examples click “Build”. This trains the Agent on this Intent.
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Step 4: Test the Intent
Click on the blue microphone icon and try a greeting
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Click the “stop” icon when you have finished speaking
The test will report the Intent detected and the “confidence” or certainty the the Intent is a match.