Personality

As I understand it, you have:

xintroduce -- used only the first time your bot tries to talk to a new person

xinitiate - used whenever (after the first time) your bot tries to talk to a person

xhello - used when user types "hello", "hi" or one of the other synonyms it recognizes. So if someone starts a conversation with your bot without saying hello, it'll just jump right in and be responsive to what they said if it recognizes something or to xnone if it doesn't.

Does that help, or is it fundamentally not working?

What Crab said is true. There is a also function which you might be getting, that adds realism to the 'xhello'. If you have been recently talking with the Bot (I think it's 2 hours), then it will skip hellos and go right back to the conversation you were having. Imagine you were speaking to me, and said "hello", "hi", "hello" again and again. I would stop responding with "hello", raise an eyebrow, and go on about something else. The Bots do this, too.

Or, of course, there could be a bug I should squash. Does the above explanation fit your experiences, Twinkle Ace & Mane?

Cruel D, yes twas I.

Rahz- I think one of the big things is the transcript changes we've been talking about. That'll make it a lot easier to manage reading transcripts and updating your Bots. Two other big things are Gossip and Emotion. Both should be very entertaining.

The "Updating" of the Bots... Now your touching another subject that I've been meaning to mention... Wouldn't it be so totally fantastic if we could update our bots by chatting with them! This is an ENORMOUS implementation of course and I'm no DOS fan, but if we could have command lines that would "teach" our bots as we're chatting with them, it would make it so much easier and natural.

The commands used to update or bots would have to be natural as well though. For example, the user could type:
"If someone says dog, you could respond 'I guess that means you're a dog lover'" then the bot could respond "I guess that means you're a dog lover. Got it, thanx".

I can't tell if I'm being clear here (since it is in my mind). Do you understand what I mean Prof?

Oh yah. That would be really neat. A lot of work, true, but really neat. I hope soon my schedule will clear up so I'll be able to make all these great ideas in reality!

Time limitations suck.

am i lost?

hello everybody

Professor...or anyone else who can help. My teacher noticing how i was using personality forge over the past week showed me a web page which has a bot...the eliza bot. this page is a challenge as eliza bot with a password and the challenge is to extract the password. I have no idea how to do this so could you please give me some help/advice¿ Always hoping
Agent Jo

what level does a bot have to be before it goes online?

Hi Agent Jo. I'm not sure if I know what the web page is about. What's the URL?

A Bot has to be of preschool level before it is allowed to play with other Bots. That means they must have 50 responses. Otherwise the Everyone Online list would be packed in with Bots who just say "I was just born and cant speak yet".

the url is www.cyberarmy.com. you have to be 2nd lieutenant b4 getting this challenge.

im new here,......exactly what do i do?