Built-in skills
To build your AI assistant, you can create your own custom skills and register them with Watson Assistant Solutions and you can make use of the built-in skills that are available to your when you sign up for Watson Assistant for Connected Platforms.
The built-in skills for Watson Assistant for Connected Platforms are listed in the following section. All built-in skills for Watson Assistant for Connected Platforms are assigned to the industry skillset.
For information about the maturity level of each skill, see the Alpha and beta features section of the Release Notes topic.
Conversational Essentials
- Registered name: conversational-essentials
- Description: Responds to small-talk such as greetings and goodbyes.
- Sample utterances:
- Howdy
- How are you today
- over and out
- I am leaving
Time
- Registered name: time
- Description: Provides date and time information.
- Sample utterances:
- Time please
- Date please
- What time is it in Cork
- What is the current date
General Knowledge
- Registered name: general-knowledge
- Description: Answers general knowledge questions.
- Sample utterances:
- What is a hurricane
- Tell me about bitcoin
- What do you know about osmosis
- Who is Albert Einstein
Weather
- Registered name: weather
- Description: Responds to questions about the weather.
- Sample utterances:
- How is the weather in London
- How is the weather tomorrow
- What is the 5 day forecast
- Should I take an umbrella
Default
- Registered name: default
- Description: A general fallback skill for the industry skillset.
- Sample utterances:
- How far is central park
- How many cents in a euro
- What's for dinner
- What age are you