How to Build an AI Agent from Scratch
Agents are powerful, but building them takes a little bit of know-how. In this video, Ben walks you through the underlying principles of AI agents, and walks you through 3 custom-build agents.
Botpress is a powerful platform that goes beyond this tutorial. More content coming soon covering AI features, integrations, and automation.
Resources:
• Article – What is an AI Agent? by Sarah Chudleigh: https://botpress.com/blog/what-is-an-...
• Articles referenced in intro: https://au.investing.com/news/transcr...
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...
• Leaked system prompts:
https://github.com/jujumilk3/leaked-s...
• Building Effective Agents by Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering...
• Find the Agents from the video here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:51 What is an AI Agent?
1:25 Agents vs. Workflows
3:01 Components
7:38 Prompting
9:12 Workflow Architectures
11:36 Demo 1: Appointment Booking Agent
16:35 Demo 2: Sales Assistant
22:17 Demo 3: Webscraping Agent