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Chatbot Hilly 1.0

Hilly is a chatbot. Hilly can be reached via the municipality's WhatsApp. There is a button for this purpose on the website, among others. Hilly can provide answers based on, information verified by the municipality.

Last change on 18th of September 2025, at 7:33 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0
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Other algorithms
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Status
In use

General information

Theme

Organisation and business operations

Begin date

2025-08

Contact information

gemeente@hilversum.nl

Link to publication website

https://hilversum.nl/hilly

Responsible use

Goal and impact

Helping residents with their government queries based on information available on the website.

Considerations

Making the chat contact channel more inclusive for residents. Spelling mistakes are also recognised by the AI language model. Question and answer can be linked more often.

Human intervention

No. Hilly uses the information on selected web pages.

If Hilly cannot find an answer to the question then a staff member takes over the chat.

Risk management

Responses are made only on the basis of verified information that is publicly available. Hilly provides the source in the reply.

Operations

Data

Hilly answers from specified sources. In this case, URLs from the municipality of Hilversum, the national government or chain partners.

Technical design

The municipality enters sources in the supplier's platform. The information is read in by OpenAI. When sending the query to OpenAI, the language model uses these sources to formulate an answer. In the bot platform, the tone of the answer is determined. This defaults to informal. Based on this, OpenAI sends the answer back to the bot platform and thus the resident. The information sent to OpenAI is then destroyed after 30 days. The data is not used for training or improving the language model. Also, no data is resold. However, data can be analysed to counter abuse or to determine whether and what information should be added so that the chatbot can answer more questions.

External provider

Spotler

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