Chatting with Skype bots feels like talking to a search engine

The way you add a bot is the same way you'd add a contact; indeed, the Add Contact screen in Skype now has two categories: "People" and "Bots." As of right now, the only Bots available to add on Skype are Bing Music, Bing News, Bing Images, Getty Images and Build Bot (which is mostly centered around the Build conference). They're mostly in Preview mode at the moment (in other words, they're still sort of in beta), but they do appear to be functional. As you might expect, the chat bots respond to very specific keywords. For example, with the Bing Music bot, typing in "Hello" would bring up Adele's song (a link to her YouTube video, it looks like) rather than polite small talk.