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October 8th, 2020
Now Available: Rasa Open Source 2.0
Rasa
We’re excited to announce the release of Rasa Open Source 2.0. This major release is full of enhancements that reduce the learning curve to get started while expanding configuration options for advanced users.
October 1st, 2020
Rasa Education and Certification
Karen White
This year, the Rasa team has introduced classes for every level of Rasa learner, from beginner to advanced.
September 25th, 2020
How we’re embracing Inclusive Hiring at Rasa
Anuka Pokharel
In order to have an inclusive hiring process that provides equal opportunity to everyone, we had to first make sure we have a structured hiring process in place - primarily to eliminate any sort of bias in the funnel.
September 23rd, 2020
Lexical Features from SpaCy for Rasa
Vincent Warmerdam
SpaCy is an excellent tool for NLP, and Rasa has supported it from the start. You might already be aware of the spaCy components in the Rasa library...
September 21st, 2020
Introducing Rasa for Beginners
Mady Mantha
We’re excited to launch Rasa for Beginners: a free, introductory, hands-on course that will help you build your first functional and interactive AI assistant.
September 17th, 2020
How to Build a “Human” Handoff Feature with Rasa
Melinda Loubser
No matter how well a conversational assistant is designed, sometimes the best action is to hand the user off to a human agent. We explore how to do human handoff, using the Rasa starter packs.
September 17th, 2020
Writing a Technical Tutorial to Support the Open Source Community
Emma Jade Wightman
You have an awesome project, but nobody knows how to use it. The chance of someone using your code goes up greatly with good documentation and tutorials.
September 16th, 2020
Introducing the BreakoutBot Diaries
Vincent Warmerdam
We are happy to announce a new YouTube series on building BreakoutBot. It's a digital assistant that also functions as a game. The goal of the series is to document how we're making a text-based adventure game using Rasa.
September 11th, 2020
The Humans Behind the Bots: Samantha Gardner
Rasa
At Rasa, our team is building the standard infrastructure for conversational AI. Today we're talking with Samantha Gardner, Customer Success Management Lead at Rasa.
September 10th, 2020
Learning the Ropes at Rasa: Building a Slack Bot
Maxime Verger
Find out about the most important lessons learned building a Slack bot for people to know, all coming from a new Rasa Engineering Manager.
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.