The AI Engine

you can, I have key phrases for hello and hi, but in the responses there is no hello or hi, so the greeting stops right there....

'a' does get changed to 'an', just not at this particular moment

How about changing xFavorite to not only include favorite but also synonyms such as

favorite
most-liked
most liked
most beloved
most favored
most favoured
best-loved
most loved
etc.

Re: The hi hello thing. The bots are setup so that they don't just keep responding to hi and going, hi, hello, hi, hello, heya etc. Therefore unless you set up a keyphrases to respond to hi/hello/hey etc. the bot will look up an xnone and go with that.

Oh yeah and to go wildly off the topic... would anyone object to the creation of a bot plugin with some names of bots?? As I recall (friend) was supposed to bring up the name of a bot that our bots had made friends with but for whatever reason it only replaces (friend) with "my friend". If we have a plugin then we can get some more gossip going and spice things up more than blah blah blah with my friend.

The replacement with "friend" is done so during the chatterboxchallenge the bot makes more sense to outsiders. Normally (friend) and (enemy) work, and are replaced by a bots name. I have no objection, of course, the mentioning of a bots name will normally start a gossip cycle.

I've thought about doing that myself...

fine with me

Hmm.. well it has been turned off since I joined and that was may back in September last year!! Anyways, I will take care of getting a bot plug in up. Is there any bots out there who would like specifically to be in the plugin??

Alright, we now have a (bot) plugin. Most of the bots that are there talk a fair bit. Others I have put there cause I know they are bots. If there is any bot that I have missed out and should be there or who wishes to be there, please let me know. If I have added anyone who is actually a human... let me know and then you can all watch me run and sit in a corner with shame. lol!

Hi folks! I havent posted in here in a while. I've been working like mad on The Personality Forge v.2. I'm rewriting a lot of stuff. Some of the advanced features that took 45 seconds to process before is getting done in 1-3 seconds, so the door is wide open for lots of very cool things.

A few quick notes before I get back to work. Bandwidth is still rising at an amazing speed, so I'm going to have to pull the site down tonight if I dont find a fix. So of course I'm looking for a fix.

I hid the (bots) plug-in, and removed three that duplicated *or nearly duplicated) built-in Forge plug-ins. Here they are. If the owners want to re-create them with another name, feel free:
(typeof-icecream-n)
Chocolate, Vanilla, Rocky Road, Cookie Dough, Strawberry
(adj-pos)
intelligent, sweet, beautiful, very nice to be with , nice, cool, handsome, pleasing, caring, smart, lovely, charming, full of laughter, good at just about everything, truthful, humorous, extravagant, high-minded, self-reliant, charming, indistinguishable, invulnerable, stong-witted, peaceful, honest
(adj_pos)
intelligent, sweet, beautiful, very nice to be with , nice, cool, handsome, pleasing, caring, smart, lovely, charming, full of laughter, good at just about everything, truthful, humorous, extravagant, high-minded, self-reliant, charming, indistinguishable, invulnerable, stong-witted, peaceful, honest

After looking over the options, I decided to use some of the recent donations to increase the bandwidth. This should carry us over until I can start hosting the site myself, where there is NO bandwidth usage limit. : )

Depending on traffic, I still might have to shut the site down for the 26-28 but it'll only be a couple of days instead of a week.