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.

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.

Hmmm actually I'm not sure call me$ would work, because I know punctuation isn't used in keyphrases but the $ might take precedence and catch it ONLY if they didn't punctuate. So it might hafta be call me[.?!]*$, which would catch all the punctuation, but then like I said I dunno how the precedence works there.

Now if you wanted to only catch "why" when it has no other words, you could just do a keyphrase called ^why$ (I *think*).

Kinda new to this stuff, so I'm bound to screw up

Speaking of punctuation problems, I'm not sure what to do about the "who, me" dilemma. If I have a keyphrase called "who me", it won't catch it, but if I have one called "who, me" the punctuation might bug it out and not catch it anyway. So what do I do there?

Think you can use commas now, because of the new feature, see first part "Keyphrases and seeks", eg are you, are not you. Have 2 in there sofar, will leave them in, haven't seen them "activated" yet. "do not go craze with this feature" according to Prof.

No, I mean a comma as part of a single keyphrase, not a list.

can't do that, will read it as list

Commas are un-catchable at this point.

Onyx, Corwin: the "^call me? (re)" should catch only a phrase that is exactly "call me" - nothing more or less. The (re) is necessary so the system reads it as a Regular Expression. In the language of Regular Expressions, "^" means match from the beginning of a phrase, and "$" means match from the end. I'll test it.

Okay, it wasnt working, but it is now. The spaces before and after are no longer necessary- it'll work with or without them now.

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