Bot Contest

I just added about 80 more responses in the last half hour. Sometimes I hate being inspired.

I wish I were inspired. Can you give me some inspiration?

Onyx, here's some constructive criticism: I think the main problem with your bot(or one of them) is that she uses subj quite often, and subj is just too limited a plugin to use in the circumstances you put it in.

I rarely use the subj plugin because of two reasons:
1. It's limited.
2. You have to have words on both sides of the asterisk. There are many cases when I would like to use it like that, but I can't.

I've changed some of the most common instances of faulty (subj)'s lately. And I took out a lot of the total crap that was in why, and made her more likely to actually say what a word means if asked. Problem is, she's just so damn BIG now that I think of things to fix and then forget where they were, and (subj) is just too damn common to bother doing a search for.

It is possible to use subject with only one word. It will take a part of the sentence after that word, see the book of a.i. It is risky, but can have nice effects

I think one should use subject only when you really need it. After all, how often in normal conversation do you repeat the other person's words?

I've got probably less than 10 instances of subj in NotKirby...

Lunar - It always gives me an error when I try to do that. How do you do it?

I would have to check my language centre to see how often I used that trick, and then think of instances where I've seen it work... I will come back to it...
My question: what is the longest text you can use as a response you think?

I think most of you are going to be very happy to see the competition. (Apparently Doly already has, which is why she's been asking about cows.) Here are transcripts from last year's Loebner contest:

http://loebner.net/Prizef/2001_Contest/loebner-prize-2001.html

Not one of those bots can talk their way out of a paper bag (unless the Eugene on there is that much better).

I happen to know the answer to that question, Lunar. As some of you know, NotKirby has some pretty long responses. A couple of months ago, I was putting in Bible quotes(not the real bible, but rather my bible - the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy) in as NotKirby's xnonsense responses. One that was about a paragraph long wouldn't fit(possibly a long paragraph).

I know, a while back I read a few transcripts from last year and even back then when my bot sucked she could've talked circles around Alice, at least. That doesn't mean I want to enter her though, I'm a bit shy of sticking her in a really elite competition like that.

I think NotKirby might pass for human if you're used to talking to me. Case in point: http://houseofkirby.mwgnet.com/convos/expert4.txt