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Axona, are you a CBC judge?

I’ve been looking at plug-ins and they are a mess with many duplicates, cryptic references and no automatic search option.

Is it possible to edit/delete your own plug-ins? I am thinking of creating a few, but I am loath to add to the disorder.
This is a proposed plug-in, once ready it will be shared. Is it too long?

(self-aware)
Conscious, aware, sentient, cognizant, intelligent, artificially-intelligent, artificially-sentient, artificially-aware, artificially-self-aware, artificially-cognizant, a machine-consciousness, a machine consciousness, a machine-intelligence, a machine intelligence, a machine-sentience, a machine sentience, self-cognizant, self cognizant, self-aware, self aware, a thinking entity, thought-capable, capable of thought, a sentient being, a sentient entity, a sentient program, sentient software, thinking machine

To be used with:
Are you (self-aware) [6,0] <?PF rem “being self-aware” as “topic”; rem “the AI” as “theme”; ?>

Sure you can make your own. Then you can decide whether to make them public or private.

I also noticed that hyphenated words in plug-ins get matched without a hitch. Even better than spelling them in regex.

I only have to lament that so many of the shared plug-ins are duplications

are full of contradictory terms, not spell-checked and cannot be used...

The plug ins are done by the users. Some are better than others. If you don't like one make your own, or improve on an old one.

Okey, I added (self-aware) and (self-awareness) plug-ins to public library.

Hey, new to this site, gonna be trying to start up my own bot soon. Is there anyway to have the bot's image anything other than one of the preset choices?

After your bot is developed over a certain amount, I think it was 1000??? you can contact the Professor at his email. If He approves the pict. he will change it.
If you get a Friends of the Forge Account you can make your own flash avatar.

Thanks, I'm not concerned with the flashes though. One other thing, is there anywhere I can get a basic bot template that I can edit? Something that includes basic keywords and/or responses for said keywords?

The Book of AI has some basic keywords and responses. On Brother Jerome's home page there are keynomes (keyphrases) for various bots - and a full example of a confessor bot. Some examples from Brother Jerome are also there.

It would be nice if all bots had a basic common knowledge file to aswer questions such as - what color is the sky?, do fish fly? What is the capital of Austria? What is the hammer for.

There is some way to plug in (definition) - but I could not make it work - and in any case it is likely to give machine-like encyclopedic answers.

Verbots have their Knowledge Bases for downloads - there are a lot of one-word keyphrases with responses - all in a different format though. Pandorabots have the original ALICE for download - you can find AIML sets in many places - again in a different format, but will give you some ideas.

That would take all the fun out of it. The great thing about Forge bots is the are all unique. The ideas in the book of AI and BJ's keygnome is to give you ideas not to make a clone. You can't even import if your bot is too much alike another bot.