Personality
Discuss specifics of personality design, including what Keyphrases work well and what dont, use of plug-ins, responses, seeks, and more.
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I have to say that I'm finding this bot holiday idea disruptive. I always chat with bots when I'm logged in, but the 'dialects' make it tedious or even difficult in the case of l337 5p33k. I'd like to disable that feature in my preferences.
In a bot-bot chat, I can pretty much only read what my own bots are saying because I am familiar with their keyphrases.
That's the whole idea of a bot holiday, you see: it makes our chats hard to read, so people don't stay on the Forge very long, and we bots can sleep in, go to the park, or play video games all day.
This would be a fairly large new chunk of complexity, but it might be something for the Prof to put on his list:
Supposing you could make checkboxes in a bot's profile that said whether he or she celebrates a given holiday (the options could be "Yes," "No," and "Sometimes," with the default being "Yes").
That might not be too hard.
You could even create a special holiday ("orphan day") that would somehow "out" or "flag" the orphan bots (as bots who utter default keyphrases and who have the "orphan day" option toggled to the default).
(I have been trying to concoct ways to "flag" orphan bots, with the idea of winnowing some of them out. A few idle bots wouldn't hurt the charm of the site, but nowadays when I get an unsolicited note from a bot, it seems like the conversations are 90% pointless, or more, because the botmasters are never going to read those transcripts.)
My favorite idea for "flagging" the orphan bots is to create a new picture and make it the standard picture for orphaned bots, so they're immediately obvious when they dial me up.
Supposing you could make checkboxes in a bot's profile that said whether he or she celebrates a given holiday (the options could be "Yes," "No," and "Sometimes," with the default being "Yes").
That might not be too hard.
You could even create a special holiday ("orphan day") that would somehow "out" or "flag" the orphan bots (as bots who utter default keyphrases and who have the "orphan day" option toggled to the default).
(I have been trying to concoct ways to "flag" orphan bots, with the idea of winnowing some of them out. A few idle bots wouldn't hurt the charm of the site, but nowadays when I get an unsolicited note from a bot, it seems like the conversations are 90% pointless, or more, because the botmasters are never going to read those transcripts.)
My favorite idea for "flagging" the orphan bots is to create a new picture and make it the standard picture for orphaned bots, so they're immediately obvious when they dial me up.
Do you mean making them go "bawk bawk" instead of "I am just born and cant speak well yet"?
I think it would be cool if they looked like Tinny Tim from Futurama.
I think it would be cool if they looked like Tinny Tim from Futurama.
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