The latest articles on DEV Community by Sergio Gragera (@sergiogragera). https://dev.to/sergiogragera https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F29132%2F2233a85d-818c-4654-9094-3b8b088de45a.jpg https://dev.to/sergiogragera en Sergio Gragera Sun, 08 Jan 2023 15:45:18 +0000 https://dev.to/sergiogragera/coding-a-whatsapp-ai-assistant-3djn https://dev.to/sergiogragera/coding-a-whatsapp-ai-assistant-3djn <p>Have you also forgotten to congratulate a friend on WhatsApp? I do, and I'm not proud of it, but I am capable of solving it.</p> <p>As a result of this problem I had the idea of schedule in my Google calendar all the birthdays of my friends and thus receiving a notification on the appointed day. However, when the day comes, I am able to read the notification but postpone sending that message or call and forget for the rest of the day that this task was pending.</p> <p>I usually use WhatsApp to congratulate my contacts, so one day I decided to integrate all this so that when the time comes it is sent automatically. Well, that project had a problem and it was that I had to write the different messages, each and every one of them, if I didn't want all my friends to receive the same congratulations. But artificial intelligence knows how to generate messages, so it had a solution to everything: remember the day, generate a personalized greeting and send it automatically.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--6HSQXklq--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/u67chf4ya0h34a5mclvx.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--6HSQXklq--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/u67chf4ya0h34a5mclvx.png" alt="schedule a event in google calendar" width="880" height="532"></a></p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--LhMqJjy2--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/x47yh0afxqlaxo3iz9xs.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--LhMqJjy2--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/x47yh0afxqlaxo3iz9xs.png" alt="delivered automatic message" width="826" height="958"></a></p> <p>This is how I created <a href="https://github.com/sergiogragera/whatsapp-calendar-gpt-bot">this open source project</a> where given an event with the subject "Write a birthday message for my friend Peter" and when the day of the event arrives, it is processed by an artificial intelligence that composes a message like "Happy birthday Peter! I wish you a day full of joy, love and laughter..." and is sent by WhatsApp to the contact or list of contacts assigned to the event. If one day I want to send a specific message, I just have to write it in the description and nothing will be generated automatically. That message will just be sent.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--l-X0M9sj--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/o1j2humf831lyl3gwpgp.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--l-X0M9sj--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/o1j2humf831lyl3gwpgp.png" alt="start script command" width="880" height="605"></a></p> <p>We have an assistant on WhatsApp scheduled from a calendar! Next steps? Well, in the roadmap I have to process the messages that arrive in my personal chat (the one that I keep with myself) and respond with the generated message, thus creating a personal assistant. I think with a few more lines I could transcribe the audio message to text to create a more natural user interface and even output the response as audio so I can speak and listen directly to the assistant. I hope you like it!</p> bot calendar whatsapp gpt