Thursday
Room 6
10:20 - 11:20
Workshop (120 min)
Part 2/2: Build your own personal assistant with Semantic Kernel
Let's play with AI! For a while now, the focus of a lot of AI related content and examples has been on "information gathering" and "content creation". For some time we were left wondering when we'd get to do cool stuff like personal assistants that can send your emails for you while you're getting ready in the morning, using our own code and totally customised routines? Well, now we get to!
In this workshop, I'll cover the basic concepts of AI and language models and a the Semantic Kernal development kit from Microsoft can be used to build a powerful agent. Then together we will build a simple personal assistant using Semantic Kernel. We will write an agent, use plugins and planners, and integrate with different language models to see how different results can be experienced with different models.
You're welcome to bring along your own code that you'd like to use in the workshop for the actions that the assistant can perform, or you can use the code that I will provide for sending emails on your behalf.
By the end of the workshop, you will have built a simple personal assistant that you can take home and play with, and the knowledge to expand on it in your own time.
Bron Thulke
Bron has been developing code since the turn of the century, and loves learning new tech. Her motto is "if you're not learning, you're not moving". Yes she just made that up, she is a programmer not a wordsmith. Bron is the CTO and Cofounder at YouLi Travel and is a Microsoft MVP.