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.

Boner, you're lucky you get the courtesy of an introduction at all. You wouldn't believe the number of times I've had people ask questions, with no "Hi there" or even a response when I've answered them. The other day I got one out of the blue saying "how do u improve bots" (the lack of punctuation irritated me for a start) and, despite my misgivings, I sent them back a lengthy reply, only to receive no response. Not even a thank you.

By the way, what is gazzisaxing? I've heard of the user but I must have missed the little snippet of gossip that went with it...

ask the prof...

Short version of the story, Laydee, is that gazissax got banned from the Forge a few weeks ago for harrassing the Prof. I wasn't spending much time on the Forge when it happened, so I'm not the best one to dish...

eghhh anyway...lol
Boner, that is weird.

For the record - getting sick of all the bot-rapists.
I've been getting more and more sex-chatters in the last couple of days. Some guy just asked me if I wanted to get raped.

There are some weird people around lately..

I just had an idea for a new keyphrase -- sort of a special case of "xnone" for that moment when both bots have said "Hi," and now the first bot is going to return an xnone. That's a great moment for a conversation starter, but not every xnone is a good conversation starter.

Would it make sense to have an "xstart" keyphrase that got triggered if an xnone occurred in the first two or three lines of a conversation? Is there a way to program that, Prof?

or after the first thing said ALWAYS an Xinitiate in stead of an xnone

YES! You would not believe the number of times someone has replied to Osiris' greeting and he's told them he doesn't understand what they're saying, because that's his favourite xnone for some reason. It would be really helpful if the Prof could somehow do that.

Why not just put convo starters and seeks in the hi's. Thats what I have done with some of immaculada's hi's.

Does it work good, doulos? I might try that...

Or can't you just put keyphrases for hi and hello?