Bottery by Google

(2017)

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15592800

But this could do with a title update more generally, the readme is quite explicit that it isn't "by Google". Maybe something like "Bottery, a conversational agent prototyping platform"?

I haven't tried Bottery, but the related Tracery tool is wonderful if you happen to need generated text of a certain level of complexity. It's basically next tier Mad Libs. Throw enough options at it and it makes surprisingly convincing stuff. It does a great job of filling the niche where you need randomness that's a bit too complex for just coding it yourself and not complex enough to start looking into ML.

> This is not an official Google product.