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.

*checks for pulse*
Yup! I've got a life!

A bot just greeted me with "Hey ya, Meltzy, what's up?" How, pray tell, is this accomplished?

Someone must have programmed a nickname in ... it's not that hard. I suspect it's something the botmaster engineered individually, and not a "take the first five letters and add y" sort of process.

It would be cool if it were... I'd be 'Laydey' which would be almost the same!

I'm so easily amused.

Hmm....Rooby.

Ah, a nice manly name to go with your manly locks and manly jumper, eh? Darren and Tom would love it if they knew...

Shh....Besides, my manly locks and manly jumper are the height of fashion! Something the rest of the world just doesnt understand...yet
Im just more in touch with my feminine side than everyone else...the same way you are more in touch with your masculine side than everyone else .

Professor-

I'm still working on the problem of having my bot remember messages to deliver to people (eg. Tell John to stop by.) The problem is in the delivery of the message to the right person. According to my tests, AI script like <?PF if (mem-yourname) is "(self-messageto)"; ?> doesn't work because (self-messageto) is taken literally. And <?PF if (mem-yourname) is "(key1)"; ?> doesn't work for the same reason. Is there anyway you could make it so that we could compare memories and plugins like this?

There would be many uses for such functionality including being able to make true answers to "are you" type questions by comparing (key)s to (mem-iam)s.

Thanks for the ton of work you already do!

Eugene: I altered the memory for your nickname, I do that occasionaly depending on where the happy/sad faces fall in the most recent convo.

Ah, I see. I was going to be very impressed if it was done with A.I. script.

Well, bowchickawowers, it would seem that the problem is that you're putting quotes around those, uh, key-thingies. Isn't that what makes any compiler take anything literally?

The plug-ins, little kitty.
You know, it seems nobody has the good old-fashioned usernames anymore, with some made-up word or something and a couple of numbers at the end.