Personality

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.

I think the x-keywords really are important.

Ugh. I just added about 20 xnones then got an error message and they're all gone. I'm quite annoyed at that...

Don't worry about adding conditional scripting and stuff at first. I wouldn't change the emotional respns. either. It just makes trouble with a new bot.

I started out programming the x-keywords. That helped me get the idea of how to put keyphrases of my own in there correctly. As for xnones, sounds liek you've got some ideas now (even though they got deleted! Aaaahhh!). The book of AI recommends actions, like *sigh* etc.. Or use them to change the subject...

x-keywords are where you can really put in the personality of your bots. The xcommands cover a lot of keyphrases.And your hello's and good byes also give your bot its personality.

Also, xnones are good places for your bot to direct the conversation to something it knows about (has lots of keywords about). Like if your bot is a soccer fanatic, or likes to eat beetles...or whatever.

And especially at the beginning, xkeyphrases will come up a lot, so it's good to have a lot of variety there. When your bot gets to be more developed, the xkeyphrases don't show up quite as much. I think with Sonora, once she got to 3000, xnones didn't show up much at all.

Someone mentioned that Hulk Day was happening too often. I had it set to appear more often than the others when I first added it so that I could see it working. I've set that back to the same frequency as the others.

my bot is speaking in the third person. how do i fix this?

It's hulk day (a bot holiday). You can fix it by turning off bot holidays (either on the news page or under "my settings")

Much fun as Hulk Day is, I think it's time for me to turn the bot holidays off too...

Odd enouph, I've had it turned of for weeks and every once in awhile ill see him talking like the hulk in the transcripts. I don't get it, it never did this before.