Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

interesting

And with WordNet, it would be immensely easier to do than without it, OnyxFlame. You'd just have emotional indexes stored along with different indexes of generality in the database, because it's sorted so that fruits is higher than oranges and lower than plants.

I'm glad BotSpot got taken over. I had to write the guy in charge or it for 8 months before he would list the Forge. he was always just too busy.

Something I realized. When is often used as a preposition, so in your Keyphrases, do this:

when will (responses)
when was (responses)
when is (responses)
when are (goto when is)
when did (goto when was)
when do (goto when are)

Aha! I caught you with your pa... never mind... Your When do goes to when are which goes to when is... shouldn't when do therefore go to when is?

How I did it is I have 4 zphrases for various whens. One for definite past answers (dates, etc.) and one for indefinite past answers ("That was while I was dating (friend)", etc.), and one for definite future answers, and one for indefinite future answers. Then I have the past whens (when did, when was, etc.) goto both of the past zphrases, and the future whens (when will, when is, etc.) goto the future zphrases. Then I have stuff like do you know when and tell me when goto all 4 zphrases. (It'd be pretty hard to come up with a keyphrase that'd give the right type of answer for "Tell me when the first man landed on the moon." that would also work for other when questions.) This system seems to work well, as long as you remember to have your whens go to the appropriate zphrases instead of other whens, otherwise it'll just print out "goto zpastdefinite" or whatever I called it.

That's similar to what I have, but you're right, there's really only future and past whens. is/are/do/does refers to something in the future. I'm not sure why I split it into three. I think my is/are/do/does has both past and future. I should fix that. Shady- you're right, I meant to "goto when is" for "when do". I went a little farther:

when does (goto when is)
when [rank: -24] (goto when is)

Then low-ranked when is in case someone simply says "When?" It's ranked so low so that it wont catch something like "When I was young, I ate apples."

wow... no wonder my bot doesn't progress, lol !

lol that makes sense!

You can have negative ranks? I have my highest as maybe 12 or 13 and lowest at 0... Should I set When at 0?

I have "I" at -10, so it only pops up if nothing more interesting is said. Used to do that for "I * you" too but that ended up sounding retarded so I deleted it.

Can someone help me out? I was doing fine with my bot until today. Whenever I send I message I get a Goodbye back from the (xgottago) selection. I'd appreciate any help you could offer. Thanks.

Does your bot actually leave after saying the xgottago? If so maybe your bot is just young and doesn't stay logged on for long so can't have any really long conversations. *shrug*

Shadyman, very 'interesting' converation you had with Brianna!
Thanks to everyone who's been chatting with Brianna lately. She's still having a major rank change at the moment (and I'm only up to the D's) but I will talk to all your Bots as well when they come on.
Anyway, back on topic - Linloth, how old is your Bot? It probably is exactly what OnyxFlame said. I think in the beginning Brianna only had about 1 minute long conversations before she made exscuses and left.