The latest articles on Forem by Muhammad Anas (@muhammad_anas_ad5864b49fe). https://forem.com/muhammad_anas_ad5864b49fe 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%2F1625571%2F9a86614f-c0b7-4f8c-93a5-b76e3fe2377b.png https://forem.com/muhammad_anas_ad5864b49fe en Muhammad Anas Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:04:07 +0000 https://forem.com/muhammad_anas_ad5864b49fe/lazyreminders-1jk0 https://forem.com/muhammad_anas_ad5864b49fe/lazyreminders-1jk0 <p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/twilio">Twilio Challenge </a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Where we’re from, people are always on their phones - and WhatsApp is widely used for communication. We built <strong>LazyReminders: a WhatsApp Reminders bot</strong> that leverages Twillio and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to remind people about important events through text messages in WhatsApp. Using this bot, people can set up multiple reminders simply by sending a text <em>or voice message</em> and get reminded by a text! Our bot also has additional features such as first-rate data privacy through secure data encryption, timezone sensitivity and deletion/removal for any reminder at any time. </p> <h2> Demo </h2> <p>On <strong>YouTube</strong>: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPG3okIw5iU&amp;feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPG3okIw5iU&amp;feature=youtu.be</a></p> <p>Talk to the bot <strong>Today</strong>: <a href="https://www.getlazy.ai/featured/whatsapp-reminder-bot">https://www.getlazy.ai/featured/whatsapp-reminder-bot</a></p> <h2> Twilio and AI </h2> <p>OpenAI’s GPT-4o came out only days before we launched the bot - and using Twillio’s WhatsApp Sender, we brought GPT-4o into WhatsApp for everyone to use! Our approach was to take the general capabilities of OpenAI’s models and fine-tune it for our use-case: reminders. Using Twillio’s API, which made securely accessing audio from users <em>simple</em>, we were able to integrate our application with not just GPT-4o, but also OpenAI’s “Whisper” model. </p> <p>Before finding Twillio, neither me nor my teammate had ever built anything for WhatsApp: both of us had worked with AI, but I personally didn’t even know that WhatsApp bots existed - and when I found out that they did, the idea of having a phone number connected to a server sounded impossible! Yet with Twillio’s docs we were able to have a working version out on the very same night!</p> <p>Twillio streamlined the process of obtaining and registering a real phone number as well as connecting our WhatsApp bot to our server. Through Twillio, we brought our complex AI knowledge to WhatsApp for non-technical people such as my sister and father to use every day! Thank you, Twillio!</p> <h2> Additional Prize Categories </h2> <p>We don’t think our WhatsApp bot fits into any additional prize category. If you think we deserve to be in one of them, we’d be honored to be nominated.</p> <p>Credits to: <a href="https://dev.to/chiefimagineer">https://dev.to/chiefimagineer</a> , <a href="https://dev.to/cutycat2000x">https://dev.to/cutycat2000x</a></p> devchallenge twiliochallenge ai twilio