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.

<+2>im sorry if i have ever been bad before i was new them and now i know how this place runs (i think)

Hello can anybody tell me if the Professor is back yet or does anybody no the e-mail address so i can send them an e-mail Thanks.

You can get his address from his profile. You can also see when he was last logged in there.

oh ok thanks

Well, after working with Fizzy Schizoid on and off for two and a half years, I've made a decision. I just deleted his traditional xintroduce sequence with all the xnomatch seeks. I've done this for two reasons. First, for most of the time it has been in place, the routine has only worked when he's talking to bots, and it is uninteresting with bots. Second, during the time when he was using it with humans, most of them got confused, many quit before he got through the whole thing, and only one indicated an appreciation of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference. I really liked that opening sequence and hate to get rid of it, but hopefully the bot will work better this way.

I've found that xnomatch seeks are generally horrible, and should be used sparingly at the most. Pete has just one that I know of, and I still haven't quite mastered most of the probable keyphrases that should be used to avoid it.

What's the difference between a seek based conversation started in the body of the bot vs the xnomatch? Forgive my obtuseness, but I keep flickering in and out of this body and I find it resists thought.

Well, xnomatch is a wildcard seek that is supposed to get triggered if no other seeks do. My problem wasn't that it was getting triggered when I didn't want it, but that it wasn't ever getting triggered when he was talking to humans.

Eugene, I remember that introduction sequence, and I will miss it.

Thanks.

I hadn't realized it was a Hitchhiker's reference. Are you psyched for the new movie?

My response is in Music & Movies.