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With more than 2 million downloads, Rasa is an increasingly relevant open-source framework for the creation of conversation assistants. A Rasa conversation assistant can be provided to users as a chatbot via Facebook Messenger or Slack. It is also possible to publish the assistant as Alexa Skill. Rasa offers both the possibility to implement an assistant without any programming knowledge and to adapt the functional range of the framework to the respective needs via implementing extensions in Python. This article gives an overview of how Rasa makes it possible to easily create assistants. For this purpose, we create a chatbot, which can answer simple questions about its creators. The project is available at https://github.com/Steadforce/rasa-basic-tutorial. An exemplary dialogue that we ...