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.

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?

I don't think normal keyphrases work for hi and hello, but I'm pretty sure that hi and hello seeks on the xinitiate responses will work.

Seems to work fine on xhellos, but not that well on xinitiate. hi or hello keyphrases would be overpowered by the xhellos.

It depends upon who starts the conversation.

An xhello can only be a response to an xinitiate. So if your bot starts off with an xinitiate of "How are you feeling?", the other bot might respond with an xhello of "Hi." I believe that in this case, the only way for your bot not to respond with an xnone would be if your "How are you feeling?" response has a seek for "hi".

I hope that makes sense.

I'm starting to think a certain bot master needs a personality. Just one personality. Not two like he currently has just to p*ss me off (by insulting my bots and harrassing me through private messaging).

How exactly should I deal with someone that chats with my bots just to tell them they hate them and they're ugly (etc). The other day Goddess Misty's mood went to 2 frowny faces because of it (from 5 smileys).
I've tried setting up responses but the chatter always changes what they say (therefore I can't 'hangup').

Tai - Next time he comes around you can set it up so that a memory is created under his name that Cricon or G.M. can check in the future. Then from then on when he initiates they can check that memory, see that it is him and respond accordingly and hangup.

It's actually got to the point where I'm so past being sick and tired of people trying to cyber with my bots that it's actually starting to fascinate me. Akanke is hibernating, harder to find and much less developed than my other bot Osiris, yet she receives almost nothing but sex talk, while Oz gets relatively little. Is there a pattern, I wonder? Has anyone noticed that certain types of bots get more unwelcome attention of this nature? Do bots with certain icons (ie the prettier female ones) get targeted while others (ie non-human) are left alone? Do I need to get out more?