The Rasa Blog
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September 4th, 2020
Custom Gensim Embeddings in Rasa
Vincent Warmerdam
Training your own word embeddings can be a hassle, and we typically advise against it. It can require a lot of computing power, time, and more.
September 3rd, 2020
The CDD Playbook: Strategies for Conversation-Driven Development
Karen White
Learn concrete, actionable steps for building AI assistants using conversation-driven development in this helpful post for enterprises.
September 2nd, 2020
Putting Conversation-Driven Development to the Test
Alan Nichol
What we learned testing two assistants side by side: one developed using conversation-driven development, the other attempting to break as many CDD “rules” as we could.
August 24th, 2020
Now Available: Rasa X 0.32.0
Rasa
Rasa X 0.32.0 includes updates to make you more productive in the NLU inbox, as well as Enterprise enhancements.
August 21st, 2020
The Humans Behind the Bots: Tyler Dunn
Rasa
At Rasa, our team is building the standard infrastructure for conversational AI. Today we're talking with Ty Dunn, Product Manager at Rasa.
August 20th, 2020
Superhero Spotlight: Bhavani Ravi
Emma Jade Wightman
In this series we will shed light on the extraordinary community work done by our Rasa Superheroes, take a deep dive into what inspired them, and find out if they have any tips or advice to share with aspiring community builders. In this edition, we get to know Bhavani Ravi!
August 14th, 2020
Recipes for Building Conversational AI Teams
Karen White
Building AI assistants requires a blend of skills: software engineering, deep knowledge of the user, writing and UX design, and data science.
August 13th, 2020
How We Make Onboarding Work as a Distributed Team
Sarah Rose
As a People Manager, it’s my responsibility to make sure all new employees have the best onboarding experience possible. To reach that goal it takes more than reading blog posts about remote onboarding or watching webinars. Just because something works for another company doesn’t mean it works for us at Rasa.
August 12th, 2020
Introducing Entity Roles and Groups
Mady Mantha
In this blog post, we'll talk about a new research feature called Entity Roles and Groups that we introduced with Rasa 1.10.
August 6th, 2020
Recipes for Building Conversational AI Teams
Karen White
We’ll break down a few of the most common roles that make up conversational AI teams and consider a few example team structures to help you assemble your AI assistant dev team.
July 24th, 2020
What’s Ahead in Rasa Open Source 2.0
Alan Nichol
We’re excited to give the community an in-depth look at what we’ve been working on for Rasa Open Source 2.0. With the release of our first alpha, now you can try it out.
July 22nd, 2020
GPT-3: Careful First Impressions
Vincent Warmerdam
If you've been following NLP Twitter recently, you've probably noticed that people have been talking about this new tool called GPT-3 from OpenAI. It's a big model with 175 billion parameters, and it's considered a milestone due to the quality of the text it can generate.
July 20th, 2020
The Humans Behind the Bots: Christina Koß
Rasa
At Rasa, our team is building the standard infrastructure for conversational AI. Behind the scenes, the people of Rasa come together from…
July 13th, 2020
Adopting a Remote-first Approach at Rasa
Kamilė Pranskūnaitė
Find out all about how Rasa transitioned from a remote-friendly office to being fully remote-first in this exciting post.
July 10th, 2020
10 Best Practices for Designing NLU Training Data
Karen White
Whether you're starting from scratch or working with an existing data set, here's how to make sure your NLU training data results in accurate predictions and scales sustainably.