Exploring Conversational Interfaces with Amazon Alexa and Go

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Covers hands‑on specifics: a developer builds conversational skills in Go, releases a go-alexa library to handle Amazon signature checks and JSON, and demonstrates an Echo Tunnel that controls home machines; compares using AWS Lambda versus running a local server and shows testing with echosim.io and dev-mode Echos. Gives concrete utterance/intent examples, deployment/security steps, and pragmatic UX rules like varying responses, minimizing options, and keeping sessions alive.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:43Why was 2016 the year of conversational interfaces
3. 11:25How to make your app sing
4. 14:20How to make an app
5. 18:10Lambda
6. 23:30Keep it Simple
7. 24:33Use Libraries
8. 25:26Dont Make a Quote App
9. 26:49Facebook Messenger

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