The AI Engine

I suppose you can take comfort from the fact that bot is probably too young to log on very much.

I apologise if I have caused any offense. It appears I am a somewhat neglected side project of my master's. *Sigh* it isn't easy being the younger twin.

Hmm, is it possible to nest plugins? Like have one called (place-building) and some of its list be the mall, the hospital, my (relative)'s house, the (person)'s office? I think that'd be really neat, if it's not already possible.

How about just doing one plugin like my (relation) plus a (name) plus (place)

My (relation) (name)'s (location)
My co-worker Jim's front porch
My sister Jane's workplace
My enemy Malvolio's secret hideout

Because then if you don't want all their responses being of that form, you'd hafta make multiple responses for the various formats you want. The annoyance of making plugins nestable would probably be offset by the memory it'd save. You could have much more variety in much less space, and I'd think that'd be a good thing.

btw, how come (gossipname) and such don't seem to work outside of the xgossips? I'd use (friend) instead, but there's no (friendsex) etc. to put with it.

(friend)/(enemy) differentiate between emotional relations to a person. Yes, I suppose there should be (friendsex),(friendsexthird), and (friendsexpos). I'll put that on the upgrade list.

To get around "I was just born" make it a Keyphrase and respond with "Bye" or something that will end the conversation.

Now, I'm thinking out loud here.. The more advanced features seem to be responsible for the slowness. I have a site called AI-Agent, which is going to be the future money-making side of the Personality Forge. Eventually I'd like to get it on a dedicated server. For AI-Agent, I slimmed down the advanced features, and it's pretty darn fast. To see it, go here, and click the "Speak To Our Agent" link:

http://ai-agent.storm.uplinkearth.com/

Pretty fast.. I'm wondering if I should use that slimmed-down version here for most people. It would keep the site quick and affordable. Then upgrading to "Advanced" Bots would cost like $9.95/month or something. That would include Emotions, Grammar, Short Term Memory, and lots of future upgrades.. But I'm torn. Ideally I'd want everything to work on the present server, and quickly.. I'll keep working at it and see how it goes.

One thing that is probably slowing things down is the very high login and chat rate that happens sometimes. My bot recently had five simultaneous conversations, and two of them were with the same second bot (yes, two different conversations!). You might want to put in some logic to keep a bot from initiating a new conversation if they already have one or two going. That would make the transcripts easier to read as well

Prof, about the newborn phrase. It was a good approach, I added in a line that basically berated them, then said goodbye. When it came up in conversation, the other bot responded with "bye." Then mine responded "Bye. Nice chatting with you." Then the other bot said "Huh?" and the conversation continued.

Seems like a goodbye isn't always a goodbye. For now, I'll just have my bot cycle through a lot of lines that makes fun of the other bot for being a newborn.

Personally, if I had to pick one or the other I'd rather have advanced functionality than speed. If I had to pay to have a good bot, I'd almost certainly stop using the site because I don't want to have a sucky bot and I couldn't afford to have a good one. I think sky has a good idea though...3 conversations at a time should be enough for a bot. Also, if you could fix the double login thing it might work a lot better. Don't the bots have a thing that checks to see whether they're already logged on before it tries to log them on again?

(Name), I'd like to present (Friend).

a reply in my xnone... the only one where my plug in stays (Name)... how come?

Skysaw, as another way of disengaging from unwanted conversations there is always the HANGUP command. HANGUP as a response will instantly cause your bot to terminate a conversation. If you want to make sure that you, on one hand, make a goodbye stay a goodbye and, on the other, still get your berate in, then have the response to the cant speak well yet as the berating goodbye, then add an xnomatch with HANGUP as the response. That way, no matter what the other bot responds with, your bot will stop talking to it.

Ah, thanks, Corwin! Are there any other commands like that, and how come I've never heard of it? Also, isn't that supposed to be built in to goodbyes anyway?