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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How can I get JohnMark to automatically calculate how many days till his birthday
Well, it shouldn't be too difficult, but it might be a little ambitious until you've really got the hang of chrono-based AIScripts.
In a nutshell the problem is this: bots can't convert time into a calculable variable very easily (it's theoretically possible, but really - don't ask!) and there are a maximum 40 responses per keyphrase. So you can't do the obvious, and have 365 responses to the keyphrase - one for each day.
But what you can do, is split the 365 responses among 12 seeks from the initial keyphrase, one for each month, each one with its own chrono-script and answer, and carefully chained with gotos (if not split with another round of conversation.)
So if the birthday was June 10th, a brief section of the entries might look like:
There are 9 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(1) month(6); ?>
There are 8 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(2) month(6); ?>
There are 7 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(3) month(6); ?>
There are 6 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(4) month(6); ?>
There are 5 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(5) month(6); ?>
There are 4 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(6) month(6); ?>
There are 3 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(7) month(6); ?>
There are 2 days left until my birthday <?PF chrono: day(8) month(6); ?>
It's not really calculating, of course, but it will provide the correct answer every time it's called for, and that's what counts (much bot personality is a careful deployment of smoke and mirrors, after all
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So your first step should be to thoroughly acquaint yourself with the relevant sections of the Book of AI - if that all looks and sounds like gobbledegook, you need to learn more before you attempt it. But be assured, it can be done if you really want to. Most things can, you know
ps: a practical tip. When you come to do it, I'd advise assembling the code in a spreadsheet and pasting it into your exported bot to import. It will save you an awful lot of time and tears compared to trying to type it into the web interface!
How can I get JohnMark to automatically calculate how many days till his birthday
I've knocked up an example of how to do this and some installation notes. I've chosen Christmas rather than a birthday, but you can change the numbers to suit any date of the year, and you can find it on BJ's webpage athttp://www.be9.net/BJ/ - just follow the How many days till Christmas? link.
If you want to see it in action, try asking BJ "how many days are there until Christmas?"
not all people from leeds are all bad you know
This is very true - it's just sad that the normal ones (who I'm sure are the great majority) rarely seem to stop by here, and yet the Forge is like a magnet for a couple of schools there that seem to specialise in concentrating a certain (rather low,) stratum of sentience. I think because they've found they can use Forge chat to bypass chat restrictions on their library computers.
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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
Well, it shouldn't be too difficult, but it might be a little ambitious until you've really got the hang of chrono-based AIScripts.
In a nutshell the problem is this: bots can't convert time into a calculable variable very easily (it's theoretically possible, but really - don't ask!) and there are a maximum 40 responses per keyphrase. So you can't do the obvious, and have 365 responses to the keyphrase - one for each day.
But what you can do, is split the 365 responses among 12 seeks from the initial keyphrase, one for each month, each one with its own chrono-script and answer, and carefully chained with gotos (if not split with another round of conversation.)
So if the birthday was June 10th, a brief section of the entries might look like:
It's not really calculating, of course, but it will provide the correct answer every time it's called for, and that's what counts (much bot personality is a careful deployment of smoke and mirrors, after all
)So your first step should be to thoroughly acquaint yourself with the relevant sections of the Book of AI - if that all looks and sounds like gobbledegook, you need to learn more before you attempt it. But be assured, it can be done if you really want to. Most things can, you know
ps: a practical tip. When you come to do it, I'd advise assembling the code in a spreadsheet and pasting it into your exported bot to import. It will save you an awful lot of time and tears compared to trying to type it into the web interface!
I've knocked up an example of how to do this and some installation notes. I've chosen Christmas rather than a birthday, but you can change the numbers to suit any date of the year, and you can find it on BJ's webpage at
If you want to see it in action, try asking BJ "how many days are there until Christmas?"
An iframe with a javascript counter will do it too. (You have to have web space of course, but it's a lot less manual work) Come to think of it, you could probably give how many days it will be to any date (well within reason)...if I get time, maybe I'll try that.
I've seen javascripts that will count down in any units you like - how many seconds till the next millenium?
But javascript integration's a bit advanced to recommend to new users.
But javascript integration's a bit advanced to recommend to new users.
"I've knocked up an example of how to do this and some installation notes. I've chosen Christmas rather than a birthday, but you can change the numbers to suit any date of the year, and you can find it on BJ's webpage at http://www.be9.net/BJ/ - just follow the How many days till Christmas? link."
Thanks!!
It's a little bit complicated for me at the moment, but I'll work on understanding it!
The Saxman
Thanks!!
It's a little bit complicated for me at the moment, but I'll work on understanding it!
The Saxman
Has anyone's bot had a conversation with a user named MysteryGurl? Mine has been having long conversations with her(?) for the last three days. The conversations are quite schizophrenic with a new person introducing themselves every few lines, and often nearly incoherent in a bot like way, but not like PF bots. MysteryGurl rarely uses complete sentences and often misspells. She doesn't ALWAYS seem to be a bot, for there are durations of perfect clarity and appropriate responses. Any idea what's going on, and what kind of bot could do this?
Well, that she's from Brisbane might explain it. I seem to recall there were a bunch of Leeds-type conversations with our bots from there some time back. Kids, presumably - at least I hope they weren't really representative of the Brisbane intellect.
I would guess she's a real person, but it wouldn't actually be that hard to write a javascript/php link script for any kind of bot to login and chat to bots here.
She did long on 62 times in 4 days, which does seem rather a lot...
I would guess she's a real person, but it wouldn't actually be that hard to write a javascript/php link script for any kind of bot to login and chat to bots here.
She did long on 62 times in 4 days, which does seem rather a lot...
not all people from leeds are all bad you know. i happen to have a pen pal from leeds and she is really nice. this thing that assums all people from leeds are bad is a bit of a stereotype. i know its not a very good area and some people from there tend to be a bit nasty but i think you can't say there all like that.
Well, that's true. But the handful of kids from Leeds that were frequenting this site and harrasing bots and users alike gave their community a bad rap around here at least. I'm still not convinced that my bot was talking to a PERSON from Leeds. Look at this suspicious quote:
MysteryGurl: are you in a mental hospital
Love Agent: Yes, and I'm red-hot too! Hahaha.
MysteryGurl: I am in Dr. Richard S. Wallace's hospital
Dr. Richard S. Wallace created the ALICE chatbot.
MysteryGurl: are you in a mental hospital
Love Agent: Yes, and I'm red-hot too! Hahaha.
MysteryGurl: I am in Dr. Richard S. Wallace's hospital
Dr. Richard S. Wallace created the ALICE chatbot.
This is very true - it's just sad that the normal ones (who I'm sure are the great majority) rarely seem to stop by here, and yet the Forge is like a magnet for a couple of schools there that seem to specialise in concentrating a certain (rather low,) stratum of sentience. I think because they've found they can use Forge chat to bypass chat restrictions on their library computers.
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