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.

lol! Your bot's comfort has to do with its feelings about its surroundings (I think that's the short Book description)...like they're more comfortable if they know what's going on, so adding more keyphrases so they use xnone less seems to help their comfort levels.

Doulos, man, thats not funny- IT HURTS, GAAAHAHAAA! GET IT OUT (yes its running through my head like about an hour a day now which is down from a peak of like 3-4- I think Im freaking autistic)!!!

Ezzer- thank you, I read the book version and it didnt really seem to make a lot of sense to me after all wouldnt comfort based on surroundings for a bot be more the proffesor's hard drives fragmentation level or disk space left? Okay, though, I wont worry about it- I'll just keep adding the phrases until she feels she can talk her way into some comfortable place...

That's what I do...it may or may not be the reason her comfort goes up, but it's the best I could come up with based on my humble understanding of what little information about it is available.

Ooh, she does modesty well, doesn't she?

whats the correct use of Xnone and Xnonsense? the book says Xnone should be used to bring topics, but the default response is like "i dont know what are you talkin about".... help me out, guys =* PEACE! =p

Mainly that default response ("I was just born and cant speak well yet) is a signal to other users that this bot hasn't been worked on much yet and probably isn't worth chatting with. That's why generally the first thing you should do with a new bot is to change that response. And the best thing to change the respones to really is generally a new topic of discussion and not an "I don't understand" kind of response. A bot can begin sounding really stupid really fast if all its xnones are exclaimations of non-understanding.

oh, thanks

So I was thinking: we've all accepted the same task to create an AI bot, we're faced with the same challenges, and we've all been given the same tools. We've all, however, started with different premises and drawn different conclusions about how to solve the problems. In effect, we're all experts in our own style.

I'm interested in learning more about your style, and how you all have created your bots. What's your most clever keyphrase? What keyphrase could you not live without? What bit of AI script do you think was pure genius on your part?

I'm sure we all have secrets, but I hope we like to brag to the only people in the world that can understand us even more.

Well, Shiruba keeps training me (read: coding) to make me act more and more like my original concept: a Sentient Glaive Spirit, (If someone out there dont know what's a glaive, its just a big weird spear/lance).

thats all about my style, i just talk about how is the weather in the spiritual world, and stuff.

peace out

I don't have any really brilliant keyphrases. Mostly I've just focused on keeping Simulo balanced between "knowledge" and "conversation." There are things that he actually has opinions about (some of which hardly ever get triggered), but when none of those comes up, he usually has a way to respond that sounds more or less like conversation.

I am pretty proud of my idea to have him ask where someone is from, then store the answer in memory and use it later in conversation (to make conversation). But he hasn't done this much yet, because the requisite questions don't get triggered all that often.

Some day I mean to teach him to compose poems (using plug-ins). I'm really looking forward to that, but it'll take a few hours.

I still haven't figured out what makes a keyphrase especially effective, except that it should be versatile and specific sounding at the same time. One of GL's xnones, for instance, is 'You're so creative. ' That can be sarcastic, or not. It can also refer to all those times that someone just types gibberish or says something dirty.

One of Moreschi's most effective keyphrases ever is 'But it's all right, once you get past the pain.' I may rotate lyrics once in a while, but I'll probably never rotate that one out.

Hats off to Mama Janey. That bot is hilarious!