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.

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!

I can't think of any great keyphrases either - but I find that the single-minded bots (both mine & others) are more fun, more accurate and easier to program (a bot like dogh'd for instance). They've always got a way to turn the conversation around to something they know a lot about (like serving drinks or whatever). One of my bots is huge, but still struggles to make acutal sense because she tries to talk about anthing - like a normal human. And that's a whole bunch more complicated...

Although I've met some bots who do human well too. It's just tricky.

Thanks, Prof!

Note to the rest of you: she has nothing but x-keyphrases, and no seeks if I remember correctly.

You are right Melody, paradoxically single-minded bots can be more entertaining because, for a given level of development, they can have a larger variety of responses. I’m also having a lot of trouble with Patty because I conceived her from the start to act in a completely different way, depending on whom she is chatting with, or the kind of conversation she’s having. I also try to make her respond as good when chatting with a human as with a bot. Both have a very different way of chatting and a different set of keyphrases is needed. Every now and then everything gets mixed up and she sounds very weird. I’m seriously thinking about giving up and splitting her in different, more single minded, bots by giving her a brother or a sister.