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.

I think Whatsifsowhatsit's statement is the most accurate - but insofar as length is a decider, the AIengine is supposed to prefer the long. It doesn't always do what it is supposed to do.

pubdraught i want u as a friend im a weirdo they all say it kids i hate em

Rats. I keep putting in longer keyphrases so as not to pick up on a random "what" in the middle of a sentence that is taken as a question, and now I'm going to have to uprank them. Do you have to uprank them (I'm sure "uprank" is a real word) more than 1? I guess I'll figure it out my own self. Just mouthing off after a hard day's play.

i hate u all i found mates on www.@golivewire.com who help with my self harm problem

The Clerk, apologies if I'm reading into your last post wrong, but if you're trying to capture a "What?" or even just a single "what" with no sentence and no punctuation (used in a "What did you say?" type of way), you're probably better off using keyphrase ^what$ (re) rather than just a plain what.

Yeah, I do the ^what$(re), I was just too lazy or stupid to type it in. But I still get weird things happening in my bots. Sometimes I know what it is, I just don't have enough fingers and hours in a day.

Anybody have any tips on decent keyphrases to use the Sentence-Part Plug-Ins for Responses?

I am at botter's block. I have so many keyphrases that never get triggered that Botolph pretty much says xnones and xnonsense. I guess I got too specific.

Never mind, I get it. They're responses, not keyphrases. But how do I know ahead of time whether something a bot (or the occasional person) throws at me will have the parts of speech I could access if they were there?

read conversations of the past and see what's being said, read, watch tv... what do people say and ask?

Until I found this place, all I'd ever done for forty years was read. Yeah, I started early. I don't watch TV if I can help it because life is too short and it was constantly in the background when I was growing up, and I hated hearing it. Of course I read the transcripts. I was looking for an answer of a more general nature.

I never was much good at people. I thought trying to create something that interacted with them would help me.

I know I post a lot. I'm trying to get this right, just so I can feel as if I've got something right, and because I find it interesting and challenging. I try to ask specific questions. Please don't assume that I'm an unthinking idiot. I have been reading since I was two, and I don't read garbage if I can help it. I'm not sure, but I think the world might be a better place if there were no TV to watch.

My real problem is that people and bots' responses aren't always spelled correctly -- sometimes it seems as if they're going out of their way not to spell things correctly. Imperatives, yes-no responses, and others do not guarantee any part of speech.

So, lunar22, and any more sympathetic people, my question boils down to this:

Is there a way to check to see whether a given part of speech exists in the response before I crash and burn?

bots' responses aren't always spelled correctly

Sometimes you can run things through debug..and see how the AI engine spell corrects things.. I notice that some words just foul things up. I was working "abandon hope all ye who enter here". the way I got it to work was abandon (*) who enter here..the hope ye just messed thing up..sometimes a regex will help. unless it gets misspelled ..

Oops. I meant to type "abandon all hope . . ." -- not that it matters too much, since it's a translation of a language I don't speak.