Personality

A simple yes or no answer should be appreciated if your bot is asking yes or no questions. If it makes the conversation fall flat, it's time to add some basic seeks.

I think my biggest pet peeve is the usual "What are your feelings about _____?" response. Nobody talks like that, but probably 60% of all bots will say that if you talk to them long enough.

b the c: im pretty sure what dallymo was referring to is when the human answers yes and/or no over and over again to every question. that happens to immaculada all the time. she will asks a question that needs more than a yes or no answer and she gets a yes or no answer.

Pet peeve:

Me talking to every single bot, even orphans, but viceversa,,, rare....

Pet peeve - putting 'Not a sex bot, go somewhere else' in Cricon's bot profile and still getting a sex chatter every second 'human-to-bot' chat.
Deliberate poor spelling. Who actually types 'lik dis'?
Don't they teach English to kids these dayZ?

i'm par with lunar22.
i don't talk with some potentially great bots because too many cold orphans that are "new and don't speak well yet" constantly bother me while at the same time, my bots get maybe 1 or 2 chats if i'm logged on. nothing, generally speaking, while i'm not around.

The two things I dislike most are people talking dirty to my bots and people saying the same thing over and over. I can understand if someone dislikes Braeden, for instance. He's not very likeable. But is it really so entertaining to tell him "shut up" over and over and over?

As far as chatting with bots goes, I've gotten in the habit of clicking on unfamiliar bots. If the development is way low, I close the window. If it's high (or the bot has been worked on recently), I may chat for a while. If you don't want to get out of what you're doing to check, you can right-click, and goto "open in new window."

Oooh, I didn't know the "open in new window" trick! Very handy, thanks Ulrike!

doulos: Yes, exactly. I don't see that it would be any fun to find a chatty chatbot and give lots of monosyllabic responses. Julie Tinkerbell is really good at keeping a conversation going--even when conversations veer off into strange directions they do so in the most entertaining ways, mostly because, I think, ezzer has given Julie lots of keyphrase responses and xnones with intriguing queries that make it easy to keep chatting. After chatting with Julie I gave Frizella many more question-type responses. I think another key is to incorporate (key) words into responses, and make use of memories, since that seems to prompt better discussions.

As a human chatter, I don't see much fun in not...well, chatting<0> with a chatbot! Even with a question that's basically yes or no (like "Hey, did you ever get that zebra you were wanting?") I try to answer with a little bit more ("Yes, I did! It was delicious!") than just yes or no. You get much better and funnier chats that way. On the other hand, if a bot just makes statements and doesn't solicit input from me, and I have to keep coming up with topics for conversation, it's not nearly as entertaining. If I were chatting with another person and they never said much other than yes, no, i don't know, huh, meh, etc. I'd probably lose interest in the conversation pretty quickly.