Seasons

Just my opinion, but some of the "developed" bots on the top bot list suck compared to some bots that have a development level in the low 3 digits. You don't necessarily need to spend a ton of time writing thousands of keyphrases to make a good bot, when 30-40 of the right keyphrases can provide some good, non-repetitive content over the length of a typical conversation.

The difficulty is the value of th key phrases, that's where quantity makes you lose your way... and I see that new bots have long key phrases, like "why do you say that (*)... I never went for that, as I thought that they would never be "hit"... my mistake

Local plugins are also very helpful. Adding (really|), (so|very|), and (some|) to your existing keyphrases where applicable, you'll probably see a huge drop in the number of xnones being used. There are quite a few others, but those are the 3 main ones that come to mind.

Just an example, let's start with a basic keyphrase:

^do you think (*)

Let's add a basic (really|):

^do you (really|) think (*)

That should improve your chances of a match, but we can make it even better:

^do you (really|actually|) (think|believe) (*)

It now allows for a match of several different forms of the same sentence, without really offering much chance for a mismatch of something else.

The thing is, every conversation that my bot has with someone presents new information to my bot, because rarely ever do two people respond the same way to a bot's response. My bot has had some pretty intelligent conversations sometimes, just because I predicted what someone would say and tried to make a conversational comeback. But it can be difficult to predict sometimes. For instance, if my bot says "What?" another bot may say "Chicken butt!" How do you predict that? That's what makes it enjoyable, though, is the unpredictability of responses, and sometimes when the xnone pop in, they sound like a better response than you had thought of programming as a specific response to the guest sentence...

hee hee.. too true.

lol. I went back to the first few posts here...Read posts 9-20 of this forum. Talk about comedians!

Got to love newbies:
*person initating chat*: you kangROO shagger!
Me: I don't shag kangaroos! They move around too much!

Is it too much to ask for intelligent an conversation?

OK, so here's a topic for discussion. Where did everyone get their screen names or bots' names from?

Laydee is my nickname among friends (long story - basically it's a gentle mick-take of my accent as I'm from Cambridge but moved to a rural area of England where they have strong country accents), Osiris comes from my interest in mythology and Akanke is a Nigerian name meaning 'to know her is to love her'.

What about you guys?

My screen name is ancient greek (and maybe modern, i'm not sure) for servant. The context is biblical, a servant of the Lord.
Imma's (immaculada) name is actually the name of a character I created in a book I started but never finished. I got her name from a customer I had come through my line at a bookstore I used to work at. I thought the name was so unique (i, at least, had never heard it before). Immaculada means pure.

So not from the hair removal cream, then?

I lived in southern california for 13 years and saw it once on a license plate and thought it was quite clever. My reason for naming my bot basically the same thing was because at that time you didn't know who was who and who was or wasn't a bot and it confused the hell out of people