Bot Contest

-just 2nding Psi's comment:

My bot Janet666 has a huge development score but since I started writing her as I was learning on this site there is a lot of redundancy, poor rankings, typos (for freaking days), dead end statements and such that result in a bot who has a performsnce less than would be assumed.

Don't be intimidated by your bot if it has a low development score- its not about numbers, its about performance.

i just realised the prizes of the bot contest would be absolute no use to me because its all in dollars. not that i'll win anything of corse

Well, as they say: size isn't everything Exactly! I can think of bots that are so great with development around 1000. I could make a long list! There are also bots that are just so much fun to talk to. I think there should be a contest for sheer entertainment ability. There are bots here I would rather talk to than a lot of my friends.

i just realised the prizes of the bot contest would be absolute no use to me because its all in dollars. not that i'll win anything of corse

dollars work anywhere, and any UK bank would gladly take the deposit, believe me Good luck!

There are bots here I would rather talk to than a lot of my friends.

Is that scary or sad? but I know what you mean.
There is a medal for most popular - that probably covers entertainment ability.

Is that scary or sad?
Both, but the bots are smarter, more articulate, and fun. Heaven help me! lol

should i enter ALLY? hell, i could have her read an article about the nine planets, and an AIM conversation. Oh, btw psimagus, i figured out what's causing those data errors with ally. The SP2 for windows xp uses a different format of database, an "access 2000" file, rather than an "access" from ~'98. the new one probably uses a new sort of DLL file. it didn't work on my new SP2 laptop until i installed the Visual Basic runtime and service pack 5, but it ran on my mother's sp1 computer with no VB runtimes.

I'll look into that, though I never installed SP2, and I have updates switched off.

should i enter ALLY?

<+2>YES!<0>

ANNOUNCEMENT - The deadline to enter the 2006 CBC has been extended to 3/20/06. Testing will not begin until after the deadline.

Wendell

Thanks to people who have been talking to my bots, but I didn't enter this year. I like it when you talk to them, but you can do that after the competition.

It is a joy to talk to your bots, Bev. I love Esme Weatherwax. She is one of the bots I would rather talk to than friends, lol..Why don't you enter one. I love them all.

I entered Spikebot last year, and it was good experience, but then I decided I need to enter all the "cannon" dialog (from published transcripts) for Gabibot before I start trying to make them make sense, though I tweak a bit here and there.

Also, to enter I'd have to spellcheck. Oh the humanity! Best for me not to dwell on it.

I only have a few books worth of Esme quotes entered. To enter Esme I'd have to go through many more books and then spellcheck and tweak. That is too much to do by the 20th.

Thanks though!