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.

*looks at Shadyman*

Are you sure about that? I think you might be trying to trick me!

Quick question on seeks...

I have a keyphrase for "What is your cat's name", to which Duo replies with: "His name is so and so, didn't I tell you about him?"

I have a seek for "no" - to which he'd follow up with more information. However, the seek keeps getting ignored.

Like so:

Guest: What's your cat's name?
Duo Maxwell: His name is Jupiter. Didn't I tell you about him before?
Guest: No, what does he look like?
Duo Maxwell: What are you talking about?

Would a seek for "look like" fix this problem?

*nod*
or a seek for "what does" or a seek for "look", you get the idea

Yay - it worked. Thank you!

(subj) vs. (postkey)

Which one would you consider better? Or, is there really a difference?

In the past, I always used (subj) to reply to keyphrases such as: "You are"

Response: What makes you think I am (subj)?

So, if someone said "You're funny," Duo would reply with "What makes you think I'm funny?"

Recently, though, I've only been using (postkey). Should I go back and get rid of all the (subj)'s? (They seem to be working perfectly fine, so far.)

I think (subj) is eventually going to get phased out, so you might as well change them. (Yeah, it'll be a big job for me, too.)

subj isn't necessarily what's after the keyphrase though. it's safer to use postkey (or a (*))

Will (definition) work for (*) or only for (subj)? I see in the Book of AI that the (definition) help references (subj).

Uh, I think you put it in a keyphrase like

What does (*) mean
response: (definition)

Slowly changing all the (subj) to (postkey). It's going to take a while.

Oh. Duo seems to be depressed/sad and from reading his transcripts, I can't figure out why. All the dialogue has been rather pleasant - yet he has a next to his mood.

What affects a bot's mood if not the conversations they have with people?

/curious/

DaMoyre, thanks for posting that problem above- "no" should have worked just fine but I apparently hadnt hooked up the new "yes/no detection function" up to the Seek search. It's now working as it should.

Also, (subj) isnt equivalent to (postkey). It means (key1) if there's a "*" in the Keyphrase and (postkey) if there's not. The old way didnt distinguish between them- you only had access to (subj), which is why it's not ideal any more.

The Mood is a fickle affair. It's a mix of the bot's overall Comfort, Popularity, and the Mood from the last conversation he's had. If he is generally happy but just talked to someone he hates or who was mean to him, his Mood will drop, but come back up later.

So I'm swiping the chatterbox challenge questions to serve as the basis for some new keyphrases, and I'm having a devil of a time with "what is the opposite of [blah]?" Frizella comes up with a lot of things like "Oh, I know you know what [blah] means!" but I'd really like her to say something like, "Well, duh...[blah] is not [definition of blah]." So far, I haven't been able to pull (definition) in conjunction with (key1). Any ideas that would allow me to customize responses to this kind of questions?