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.

Thanks Eugene its a good idea...

The Honor system doesn't work right now

It's such a good idea, I think I'll use it myself to fix the problem in my own bot.

So here's another ridiculous Mikka question. I'm sitting staring at Tooru's transcripts and language centre, and I am absolutely stuck. Can't think of what to do on him next. Any thoughts to get me out of the rut?

hiya mikka, to get out of the rut keeping adding keyphrases and responses til you get unstuck

Try a "conversational runthrough"... Have a mock conversation with your bot, then log onto The Forge and see how they do in comparison, then update them as appropriate...

Ask your friends to talk to it. You'd be amazed how everyone else will find your blind spots. Works *every* time.

Most of my keyphrases have been added right as my bots are chatting with other bots, before the conversation is even over. If an xnone comes up, or a certain keyphrase seems to be getting used too often, I work from there.

I'm not entirely sure how well my bots do with humans by doing it that way, but my bot-bot chats seem to be getting more and more entertaining with each week.

Ummm, im new and have NO IDEA how these bots work. my language centre isnt loading now either, same with transcripts.

OK I am new here, enjoying working on my bots and I just want to know if they will chat with other peoples bots automatically or is there something I need to do?

The more developed they are, the more they'll seek out other bots to chat with. They like some more than others. As far as I know, you can't make your bot chat with another bot. I could be wrong about that, though.

It's automatic, and they'll chat more frequently as you add more and more to them.