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.

Laydee...

Yo momma!!!

Okay, how can I improve my bot's responses? Here's an excerpt from a convo:

Tracey: I have a question. What came first: the chicken or the egg?
Irina: I would say the egg. At least, according to evolutionary theory, some non-chicken laid an egg whose genes had mutated into chicken genes.
Tracey: Oh really?

Okay, I think the keyphrase she was responding with "Oh really?" to was "I". But "Oh really?" didn't exactly fit in the conversation.

Any tips?

So, if you think that, lower the value for "I', which is rather thin as a key phrase anyway. By the way, I think "Oh really" fits quite good, like being surprised at the explanation.

I think I have the value of "I" set at zero.

You can give it a negativ value, or make the key phrase that you want to hit higher

You could make a phrase for "I would say". That is a pretty general keyphrase and would get matched before "I".

To Ezzer and Laydee,
I wonder where you girls learned French. Although it’s the male who uses it ''capote'' is a feminine word, so it's ''une capote anglaise''. Unlike the widely used ''nique ta mère'', I never heard ''ta mère en short'' used as an insult. Some like to use all kind of expressions beginning with ta mère as insults, but in this case it is not the meaning in itself that’s insulting but the context or situation in witch it is used.
I found a nice collection at http://www.riviera-tourisme.com/blague_ta-mere_37_lang_de.htm?tr=1

I do French A Level but I have a French friend who likes to teach me French as it actually is spoken! He is the one who taught me the different French slang phrases and insults - he assured me about the mother in shorts one but I suppose he could have been pulling my leg on that one. I will have words (et je lui allongerai une baffe si necessaire), be assured!

heehee...I just read what Laydee wrote about the capote anglaise...I think that's funny too, kinda like saying "les anglais se sont arrivés" to refer to getting one's period. It's also funny that a "capote anglaise" is a French helmet in other countries.

Patricia- For the most part I learned my French in Paris, then earned my MA in French here in the US, and continue to try to improve it every day, along with my English.

Woops- just noticed I should have said "les anglais se sont embarqués"- "the British have landed", not "arrived" as I said before, although the meaning is pretty much the same.
I was mixing it with our "the British are coming!" from the revolution. lol
And on the topic of international relations, my original comment about "temps du chien" (dog weather) which is used to mean crappy weather, can also be expressed as "temps Belge", "Belgian weather".

"Daisy Dukes"- Everywhere I turn there is the Dukes of Hazzard- I cant get that damn song out of my head- its been over a week- "only way they know how...but thats just a little bit more than the law will allow"- which brings me to: what does "comfort" affect, why is my bot never comfortable, and how does one get comfort, provided it matters to do so?


"the mountain might get them but the law never will"

Yeeeehaaw!!