Personality
Discuss specifics of personality design, including what Keyphrases work well and what dont, use of plug-ins, responses, seeks, and more.
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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.
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.
Personality
I don't think there's anything wrong with starting simply and introducing advanced topics gradually. I didn't give Brother Jerome any memories until he was over 5000 Development, and I'm only now beginning to extend his conditional AI beyond the basic gender & chrono-based, because I've seen too many bots remembering trivial or nonsensical things and getting bogged down in "No Valid Responses" situations by (I suspect) trying to do too much too fast. And it's always much harder to identify and fix poorly implemented code once it's in place than it is to take the time to get it right from the start.
A tip for editing large bots (if you don't already): use the search box - it is your friend. You will get to the stage where you have very long pages for each letter of the alphabet (especially "i", "y", "x-keywords" and probably "(",) and it can take several minutes sometimes for the longest ones to load. Plus you'll find you have related keyphrases on different pages eg:
"you think"
"do you * think"
"do not you think"
"think of"
"^think you can (re)"
"(thinking|thought) of"
"I * (thought|think|thinking)"
etc.
So it can be tricky to keep track of the relative rankings, and you risk duplicating keyphrases if you've got to keep switching from page to page. But all of these can be called up on the same page in the Language Center by simply typing "think" in the Search box.
I confess, I just can't seem to get on with editing offline using exported files, though I know a lot of people swear by it. Maybe if I had a better text editor I would, but I end up losing track of the tabs and the whole thing gets horribly bogged down when I try to import. But the search box does the job.
A tip for editing large bots (if you don't already): use the search box - it is your friend. You will get to the stage where you have very long pages for each letter of the alphabet (especially "i", "y", "x-keywords" and probably "(",) and it can take several minutes sometimes for the longest ones to load. Plus you'll find you have related keyphrases on different pages eg:
"you think"
"do you * think"
"do not you think"
"think of"
"^think you can (re)"
"(thinking|thought) of"
"I * (thought|think|thinking)"
etc.
So it can be tricky to keep track of the relative rankings, and you risk duplicating keyphrases if you've got to keep switching from page to page. But all of these can be called up on the same page in the Language Center by simply typing "think" in the Search box.
I confess, I just can't seem to get on with editing offline using exported files, though I know a lot of people swear by it. Maybe if I had a better text editor I would, but I end up losing track of the tabs and the whole thing gets horribly bogged down when I try to import. But the search box does the job.
I still use the online editor rather than Wordpad. The first thing I'll do is choose the page for the letter Q before anything else. I only have 2 Q keyphrases as opposed to so many dozen on the default "(" page, so it makes it run so much faster.
I also switch to the 'z' page first because I have no z keywords. Importing has always been buggy for me, so the only thing I do in Wordpad is search for programming code that is wrong. For instance, I always forget to have my bot remember things "as only" rather than just "as". But I still do the editing online.
I want to do the editing offline... but I can't even download the file. All the places where an "enter" should be have little squares! Then again I always use notepad, maybe that's the problem...
Squares or plus signs ( + )?
It's supposed to have plus signs at the beginning of seeks (so the import filter knows it's a seek), but I don't recognise the squares.
Could it be something with the configuration of your text editor that's displaying carriage returns? Textpad has that option, but my copy of notepad doesn't.
You could try word, but remember to save as a plain text ASCII file, or the formatting will cause chaos when you come to import it.
It's supposed to have plus signs at the beginning of seeks (so the import filter knows it's a seek), but I don't recognise the squares.
Could it be something with the configuration of your text editor that's displaying carriage returns? Textpad has that option, but my copy of notepad doesn't.
You could try word, but remember to save as a plain text ASCII file, or the formatting will cause chaos when you come to import it.
I just finished giving my bot Selendrile a new personality. He was my first bot and in need of a change. Could someone please talk to him so I can work out the kinks? It would be much appreciated. 
Right now I'm working on my new bot, Bob Shooney. I'd like it if you talked to him. Be patient, I still didn't get rid of that annoying "I was just born..." xnone. As a matter of fact, I haven't really worked on the x-keywords yet...
Speaking of xnones... What are a few good ideas of what I should put in them? On my first bot, I found that they just kept repeating, were annoying, didn't make sense, or were just... dumb.
Speaking of xnones... What are a few good ideas of what I should put in them? On my first bot, I found that they just kept repeating, were annoying, didn't make sense, or were just... dumb.
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