Step 3: Start Building

Now it’s time to build the first AI assistant yourself.

  1. Install the Rasa Stack on your machine (if you haven’t done that already)
  2. Get the Starter Pack
If you have any questions, you can ask Sara, the Rasa bot, or visit our Community Forum.

a) Install the Rasa Stack on your machine

The recommended way to install the Rasa Stack is using pip (make sure to install both Core and NLU):

    

pip install -U rasa_core
    

    
    
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(Full instructions can be found in the Core Documentation.) 
    

pip install rasa_nlu[tensorflow]
    

    
    
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(Full instructions can be found in the NLU Documentation.)

Unless you've already got numpy & scipy installed, we highly recommend that you install and use Anaconda.

b) Get the Starter Pack

We've prepared a Starter Pack which has all the files you need to build your first custom AI assistant and a training data set. Also, this YouTube tutorial walks you through all the steps. 
    

git clone https://github.com/RasaHQ/starter-pack-rasa-stack.git
cd starter-pack-rasa-stack
    

    
    
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Now you've got everything you need to start building your first AI assistant. You can find detailed docs for Rasa NLU here and for Rasa Core here.

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