Respond AI
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The Respond AI feature enhances the effectiveness of your communication by improving your sentences or even responding to incoming messages with the help of AI. Respond AI consists of the following three main components:
This is done with the help of prompts that redefine sentences to convey your meaning better. You can use Respond AI to change the tone of your sentence, translate text, fix typos and grammar and create your own custom prompts.
Learn more about using these prompts in the Messages Module, here.
You can access the settings of Respond AI settings by selecting Settings in the navigation menu > selecting Respond AI under Workspace Settings. The page has the following three tab:
AI Prompts: This tab is displayed by default and you can select which AI prompts you need from here.
Learn how to use AI prompts in the Messages module here.
AI Assist: Select this tab to add knowledge sources, determine if snippets will be used by the AI Assist to respond to queries and define the AI Assist persona.
Learn how to use AI Assist in the Messages module here.
AI Agent (Coming Soon): Select this tab to provide settings for the conversational bot.
The AI Agent tab is work in progress.
The Knowlege Source tab is work in progress.
By default, Respond AI provides you with 4 default prompts and the capability to create 4 more custom prompts. You can swipe the toggle right/left to enable/disable prompts on the Quick Prompts page. The selected prompts are available in the Messaging Console of the Messages Module.
At least one prompt must be enabled at all times.
The following 4 inbuilt prompts are enabled by default and can be used immediately:
Change Tone
Translate
Fix Spelling & Grammar
Simplify Language
Learn more about each prompt here.
You can create up to 4 custom prompts that exclusively behave the way you want them to.
To create a new custom prompt, click the Add Custom Prompts button.
On the New Prompt dialog, provide the following information:
Option | Description |
Prompt Name | Enter the name of your custom prompt. For example, Make Concise. |
Prompt Action | Enter the action you want your prompt to perform. For example, Make the sentence shorter and more concise. |
Save | Click this button to save the prompt settings. |
Cancel | Click this button to discard your changes. |
If 4 custom prompts exist, you must delete at least one to create a new one. However, prompts available by default cannot be deleted.
Once the custom prompt has been created, you can edit it by clicking the Edit button next to it. Once you have edited the prompt, click Save.
If you do not need a custom prompt anymore, you can delete it by clicking the Delete button, and confirming the deletion in the dialog that appears.
Only delete a prompt to remove it permanently. If you temporarily do not want a prompt, just swipe its toggle to the right on the Quick Prompts tab.
To enable a prompt, swipe the toggle of the prompt right so that it is available in the Messaging Console.
To disable a prompt, swipe the toggle of the prompt left so that it is not available in the Messages Console.
The Quick Guide section shows you how the AI Prompts work.
You can improve AI responses generated by AI Assist and AI Agent by identifying various knowledge sources, PDF files and website URLs that can help AI Assist/AI Agent understand your business better. With sufficient material, AI Assist can provide apt responses to customer queries. Before you start using the AI Assist/AI Agent tool, you should test it to verify that the knowledge sources are, in fact, sufficient. If not, you can provide more information by adding more sources.
Click the Knowledge Sources button to manage Knowledge Sources.
Both AI Assist and AI Agent rely on existing knowledge sources; any deleted Knowledge Sources are not used to answer queries.
You can add Knowledge Sources to AI Assist/AI Agent by selecting the following options:
Files: On the Files dialog, drag and drop relevant PDF files and click Upload. You can upload 5 files at a time and up to 50 files in one workspace.
Keep in mind that images are not a good Knowledge Source
URL: On the Website URLs dialog, enter the relevant link. When one webpage (with up to three depth links) has been crawled, you can provide another URL for crawling. It is recommended that you give AI Assist enough time to crawl one website completely before sharing another. Since web pages are crawled, and the information is stored as a Knowledge Source, you need to recrawl the website whenever there are updates to the data on the web page.
Data placed in tables is not a good Knowledge Source, and it is recommended that you pre-process it in a non-tabular format before providing it as a knowledge source.
Once a Knowledge Source has been added a notification is sent to inform you about it.
The capacity of your Knowledge Sources (PDFs and URLs) in a workspace is up to 1 million characters.
When you are done sharing your Knowledge Sources, click Done. Refer to the Status column to see what the status of the Knowledge Sources is. The possible statuses are:
Completed: All the Knowledge Sources have been added.
AI Assist will be able to generate responses based on this Knowledge Source 2 minutes after it has been added to the knowledge source.
In Progress: The Knowledge Sources are still being added.
Error: Errors tell you if there is an issue in processing the Knowledge Source. You can eliminate the issue and retry.
You can view, edit and delete the Knowledge Sources you provided on the Knowledge Source tab.
From the ACTION menu, select Edit to edit the name of the Knowledge Source.
From the ACTION menu, select the Delete button/icon to delete the Knowledge Source. AI Assist cannot access this knowledge source anymore and therefore, it cannot base responses on it.
Each workspace has a character limit of 1 million characters. If a workspace has exceeded the number of characters (either while adding a Knowledge Source or in an attempt after the limit was met), an error displays.
The Quick Guide section shows you how the AI Assist - Knowledge Sources work.
Character Limit Constraint: The crawler's operation is limited by the character capacity of the workspace, which is set at a maximum of 1,000,000 characters (1MB).
Error Count Threshold: The crawler can handle up to 10 errors per crawling job, with two error types - Timeout Errors and Protocol Errors.
Page Count Limit: There is a limit on the number of pages the crawler can process, which is set at 10,000 pages.
Exceeding the limitations in the knowledge crawling process (such as character capacity, error count, or page count) can result in a "file empty" errror.
AI Assist lets you leverage the power of Respond AI to conduct engaging conversations with customers. You can start off by providing educational material to help AI Assist learn about your business requirements. Once done, it can formulate responses to customer queries based on the information it has.
On the AI Assist tab, you can improve AI responses by adding Knowledge Sources, testing AI Assist and providing other settings.
After defining the Knowledge Sources, return to the AI Assist tab and click the Test AI Assist button to open the Test AI Assist dialog.
Provide a question in the Prompt field and click the Send icon.
Each response costs 1 credit.
View and verify that the response displayed in the Response area is correct.
Click Done to close the dialog.
If you are not satisfied with the response provided by AI Assist, you can provide additional Knowledge Sources using the Add Knowledge Source button.
You can provide other settings such as enabling AI Assist to respond outside of added Knowledge Sources, add snippets and define a persona for AI Assist.
Swipe the Reply outside the added knowledge source toggle to the right to allow AI Assist to respond using the information provided to the Knowledge Source and the external source of information i.e., ChatGPT.
This toggle is enabled by default if no Knowledge Sources have been added yet.
If this toggle is not turned on and there is no related material in the Knowledge Source, and you have no snippets, or you turned off the snippets, no answer is drafted by AI Assist for the incoming message(s).
Swipe the Snippets toggle to the right to allow AI Assist to use your snippets as a Knowledge Source to draft responses to your conversations.
It is recommended that you define the persona of AI Assist in the AI Assist Persona field by defining the distinct characteristics you want your AI Assist to have. For example, create a background of the persona by identifying the purpose/role it has in a conversation, define the personality (skillset, speaking style, etc.) and any other qualities that help Respond AI craft the behavior of AI Assist. However, a default persona has been provided for convenience which adheres to professional yet courteous conduct. Design the AI Assist persona carefully so that it can draft responses that best suit your business requirements.
If you want to revert back to the default persona, you can click the Reset button.
How it Works?
You can now start using AI Assist to draft responses to customer queries in the Messages module.
The Respond AI chatbot, AI Agent, replies to customer inquiries using the Knowledge Sources/Snippets provided to it. The AI Agent can be enabled in the Workflows module using the AI Agent Step.
You must provide some Knowledge Sources or Snippets to your AI Agent as reference material to use while responding to a customer’s queries. It is recommended to provide focused information to the AI Agent to enable it to provide the best responses. Therefore, when adding the AI Agent Step, provide knowledge sources focusing on one topic. For example, if you want your AI Assist to function as a virtual support agent for Product A, you will provide the relevant Knowledge Sources to help the agent answer queries related to Product A. When AI Agent has many Knowledge Sources on various irrelevant topics, it slows the AI Agent and increases the response time.
If the Knowledge Source used by the AI Agent Step is deleted, you must provide an alternate Knowledge Source
To optimize your responses, consider developing multiple specialized AI Agents tailored to answer customer queries related to different areas of your business.
AI Agent is ideal for handling low-value conversations and can provide continuous 24/7 support to clients without additional cost.
The AI Agent takes previous messages/queries in context before replying to a query.
If one message contains multiple queries, AI Agent responds to all queries in one answer. Only 1 credit is deducted.
The AI Agent can process text, email, and quick replies. It cannot, however, process to images.
If a conversation is closed and reopened, the AI Agent will only respond to the queries asked after the conversation was opened.
The Quick Guide section shows you how the AI Agent - Knowledge Sources work.
