• Create Your First Real Estate Lead-Capturing Chatbot Using Voiceflow and Python Flask

    Introduction Chatbots are essential tools because they make communication between people and technology much easier. These clever programs can answer questions, provide helpful information, and even assist with tasks. In various fields like real estate, chatbots play a crucial role by engaging with potential clients, enhancing user experience, and helping businesses capture valuable leads. They’re like smart assistants who work around the clock, making interactions smoother and more efficient for everyone involved. Chatbots come in different levels of complexity, categorized as either stateless or stateful. Stateless chatbots treat each conversation as if it’s a new interaction with a user, while stateful chatbots can remember and consider past exchanges when generating…

  • Automate Your Finance Blog with WordPress and Google Bard in Python

    Introduction Earlier I gave you an overview of how you can you GPT APIs to build a stock sentiment analysis system. In this post, I am going to introduce you to Google Bard, Google’s answer to OpenAI’s chatGPT. Bard has been around for a few months but they recently offered APIs to access their LLM. Initially, they introduced PaLM APIs but very recently they have offered Gemini Pro and Gemini Pro Vision APIs which means that like GPT4 Vision, you can now use Bard APIs to process images. We are not going to discuss image processing capabilities at the moment. I am going to offer a use case where I…

  • Getting Started with AWS Automation: EBS Snapshots, AWS Lambda and AWS Systems Manager

    Image source: Pixabay Guest Post by Gilad David Maayan Whether you’ve recently adopted cloud-based services or you’ve been using them for a while, you’re likely interested in reducing the amount of manual work that managing a cloud system requires. Luckily, AWS includes a variety of automation tools and integration options that you can put to use to accomplish just that.  We’ll look at three of your options here, one simple to implement and two a bit more challenging, to give you a better idea of how they work and how you can use them to maximum benefit. EBS Snapshots The Automation of EBS snapshots is one of the easiest places…

  • Windows Desktop Applications Automation using AutoIt

    Guest Post by Ahmed Memon AutoIt is a language & framework to automate (mainly) Windows GUI application interactions. Though it has its own language but there are wrappers available for Python, C# etc too. This write-up target developer who want to automate Windows Desktop Applications but either do not know the right tool or want to enhance their skills using AutoIt. Just like with anything, there is either informed or amateur approach towards solving a problem. Developers who have never written Windows GUI applications will write AutoIt code that will depend too much on interactions with active GUI. While we can get maximum out of AutoIt when we rely less on…