ibmtjbot/tjbot

Rename `conversation` recipe to `conversation-assistant`

jweisz opened this issue · 4 comments

jweisz commented

The existing conversation recipe uses Watson Assistant, but WA has likely changed a lot since we wrote the recipe (there's a new thing called "Actions" now?), so the proposal is to:

  1. rename the recipe to make it clear that it is demonstrating conversation using Watson Assistant (hence, conversation-assistant)
  2. update the recipe to work with the new way that WA conversations get defined. I'm not sure the existing .json file that serialized all our conversational intents will work with the new WA? This needs to be tested. 😄
modcarroll commented

Working on updating the .json now. Question for this one though: the new proper name for conversation is "watsonx Assistant" so should our naming reflect that? watsonx_assistant

modcarroll commented

Actually in thinking this through a bit more, I take that back because there are two recipes we could go with for assistant:

  1. Use watsonx to generate answers
  2. Re-use our existing sample .json

So maybe watsonx_assistant for 1, then conversation_assistant for 2?

jweisz commented

Hm, good question. I guess the way I thought about it was the way you described above:

  1. Use watsonx.ai to directly generate responses to things people speak to TJBot. This is probably the most interesting use case right now given the excitement about LLMs.
  2. Use watsonx Assistant to show how to build a dialogue model for TJBot. It's been a long time since I used assistant and I'm not even sure if our .json file is still valid, although I think I did do some fixup at one point (e.g. to remove functionality we no longer have)

If I had to prioritize, 1 is at the top of my list. :)

Technically this issue should probably be closed given that we did already rename the receipts (in dev): (1) corresponds to conversation_watsonx and (2) corresponds to conversation_assistant. And I think we have other issues for actually implementing these recipes? I'll let you decide @modcarroll :D

modcarroll commented

Aha! You're right about dev - I completely forgot about that. Ok perfect