So, plainly, my questions are what know-how do I need to make one and if I ultimately can make one, how do I integrate it into a platform? E.g how did the pipedbot link I got to see, get integrated into lemmy in the comments section?
So, I just discovered something called piped because a lemmy bot linked a YouTube video to it. My familiarity with privacy and FOSS is a bit naïve, but I’d like to build more on it. I’ve seen similar bots when I was on reddit, ones that would give links to a mentioned song, or the moderator ones (I’m assuming the AutoMod thing is a bot too).
Could someone possibly walk me through how to make one? This might be irrelevant/relevant info: I’m familiar with knowledge graphs, SPARQL, a tiny tiny tiny bit of SQL, python and R (mostly because of school).
Also, apart from links, moderation, and chats on customer service websites, where would a non-techy apply it? Even if it’s just for personal use.
I know I could duckgogo this, but I prefer dynamic walkthroughs/explanations I can get here.
as you have basic programming knowledge chatgpt will probably help enough to do what you want
I want heavily discourage using chatgpt for anything learning-related. It hallucinates often, randomly, and very convincingly, and you wouldn’t have enough experience to spot when it lies.
What do you want it to do?
There’s a lot of automation program that works rather easily. But it’s more about the program you choose.
I’m familiar with knowledge graphs, SPARQL, a tiny tiny tiny bit of SQL, python and R (mostly because of school).
Sounds like you have some computer knowledge. So next thing you should do is look up what ever you want to do and then see if there’s some automation already at play.
If you want something for lemmy, start looking through these and good luck.
Thank you for the link. It’s helped me grasp some things I found vague in my understanding.
As a follow up, you might want to start with a discord bot if you’re curious. We have a slack bot at work that’s pretty useful. But again it depends what your goal is or what you want to do. Programming is fun and working with simple bots is probably the easiest and most interesting stuff to do… until it doesn’t work.
Oh and use ChatGPT to ask questions, I’ve found it extremely helpful even when I’m doing really hard programming tasks, especially because how you phrase the question helps your brain start working on the problem.