A narrow depression, slit, groove, or opening, especially one for receiving something, such as a coin or letter. Also: a position in a sequence or schedule. The new program landed a slot on the broadcasting schedule.
A reel-based game in which symbols are lined up in a vertical or horizontal payline to win. Generally, slots feature a single payline that runs from left to right across all five reels, although some have diagonal lines or V-shaped patterns. A slot machine’s random number generator (RNG) dictates the outcome of each spin, but players can influence the chances of winning by making adjustments to their bet amounts and/or patterns.
In bot programming, a slot is a dynamic placeholder that waits for content to be added (passive slot) or calls out for it (active slot). A scenario can either use an Add Items to Slot action or a targeter to fill the slot with content.
You can set up custom slot types to map entity values to utterances that Dialog Engine recognizes as matching those values. You can also define synonyms for a slot type, which allows the bot to recognize multiple words or phrases that are associated with the same value. For example, you can assign the slot type value Flight Number to the regex pattern