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.

This maybe have a really obivous answer, but if I'm logged in, how can I talk to a bot? I seem unable to carry on a conversation after one reply because I can't see what they write back.

don't close the chat window
(will pop up again with answer)

Yeah, like lunar said, when you write a response and click "Send", the window will close itself after it's done sending, and another window will pop up in a little bit (maybe 10-20 seconds) with a response..

Also make sure you don't have an ad-blocker or popup-blocker running or something because I bet it sees the conversations as popups

that would be my problem then, the ad-blocker. duh, that was really stupid! thanks.

Oh! I was just guessing as to a possible problem

thanks for the help, so now I have another question. i can't seem to get into my transcripts to read for my bot for the past 3 days. it doesn't go anywhere it just sits and thinks. should i just keep trying?

I don't know. I had the same problem at one point.

i guess this should have gone on the other forum thing. sorry!

slyabney- it's fixed. Check the Bug Stomp forum for details.

Here's a regular expression that (I think) will find a match5{of a phrase:

^is that (re)

The symbol in front specifies that the match starts at the beginning. Then you need a space because all sentences are formatted with a space in front, and then the words to match. The advantage being, of course, that it wont match sentences like this: "What I think is that I want another snow cone." but it will match "Is that a snow cone?"

What about the (re) bit on the end? Is that necessary?

Also, I think if you could do a similar thing using another symbol which specifies the keyphrase is only to be used when there are no other words in the sentence would be a big improvement. I don't know how hard it would be, but if you could do it I think it would be handy. It'a just a thought, heck you probably already have it down somewhere on your big list of things you want to do.

I've just tested the ^ thing, and as far as I can tell it isn't working.

I believe in order to work, you'd need ^is that (re) (note there's NOT a space before "is", I presume if you put a space there it looks for (space) is).

Also, here's another idea. Having a keyphrase called call me$ (re) would match "call me", but NOT "spank my ass and call me Charlie" or whatever that one a certain bot uses is.