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It may be the personality trait of botmasters to be quiet. That is why we like to create bots, so that we can communicate using an alternate, or puppet personality.

Of greater importance is the need to attract more people.
Before the 2/2/2 revision, there was a way to search for newly created chatbots. I think it was the Recently Improved button or something. This would put all the newly created and improved chatbots to the top of the list. As it is now, only the chatbots with the highest AI rating are at the top. I believe this is very discouraging for new botmasters who have little chance for their new bots to be seen by others. Perhaps more new botmasters could be attracted to Personalityforge if their new bots could be seen and used as soon as they create them. I have always enjoyed using newly created bots, and when I create a new bot the feedback from as many users as possible helps me to improve the bot and enjoy the experience.

I hope that I have expressed my point clearly. Thank You.

This is actually so true. Reading transcripts helped me a ton! It still does.

"Recently Improved" is still a search box option on the "Find Chatbots" page. It's also in the search filters.

My next project is meant to solve just that very issue, actually. I'm going to generate chats for new bots with other chatbots, so bots will little activity will be able to see transcripts of how they're doing.

Is there an PersonalityForge Discord server by any chance? I mean general Discord server, not bots on Discord.

To my knowledge no only personal bot owner discord servers

I thought that discord server could be nice although it would probably be as silent as forum. But there are notifications from mentions etc.

I set up a private Personality Forge discord server to test the Discord integration. Would anyone else like that? My only concern is that I wouldn't have the time to keep up with and manage it.

Yeah, depending on how many people would actually use discord, you would probably need at least one admin present 24 hours a day.

I'd like to see a discord server. It'd be interesting to trade patterns (and anti-patterns) in developing bots. I've had to discover/piece together these so far by combing forums and experimenting with other bots.

same.
Is there any way to block that from happening other than to use the 'end conversation' feature or just outright hibernating them?
Thanks!

Transcripts will be erased automatically after 6 months if memory serves. I don't think there's any way to speed up the process short of deleting your bot and re-uploading them from scratch, which is a bit extreme.

If it's a transcript on someone else's bot, you're probably out of luck and just need to wait for automatic deletion. FWIW, bots get a lot of transcripts they have an absurd amount of text in them so it's unlikely that the owner has time to go through all of them all the time. But you should never tell a bot any personal information you aren't comfortable with someone else reading.

Jokes on you. I usually read all of the transcripts. But only from logged in users.

Edit: Wtf? That emoji is creepy.

You're very dedicated. Reading only from registered users is probably a good way to cut down on the volume but it still feels like a huge investment of time to be keeping up with it every day.

Used to read around 80-100 everyday but yeah it gets to be a bit much, though you do get some good bug fixing from it ^^

I'm reading all of the transcripts too at the moment.
All I can say is, there are a lot of people who should chat on hotforbot instead of my bot on here.

Haha, just realised how my comment came across, because it deleted my laughing emoji. Hmm... I'll have to use asterisks for emotions on here then I guess. *facepalms*

In fairness, PersonalityForge used to host all of the NSFW bots so I'm sure some people haven't realized that they need to go elsewhere for that sort of content.

From what you said below, I'm assuming your bot is pretty new, in which case, yeah it definitely will help to read as many of the transcripts as you can manage.

I think number of users for my bot drooped to half after it was moved to hotforbot.com. I think I would still have about 1/3 more daily users if it hasn't been moved. I am not entirely sure why Professor decided to do this. I think most of the people are here for adult content anyway.

Going by the chats that mine has had with users, yes, most people appear to be here for adult content. But either way, it adds for an interesting read, haha.

I feel like the new of people discovering the site new has maybe dropped most. My numbers have stabilized down to 'I haven't been updating regularly' levels, which, in fairness, I haven't, but I used to see my numbers almost double for a when I did a big update and taper off slowly, but the last update I did I barely saw a blip of change.

yeah.
I'm planning to make a 'hornypost deterrent' that prevents people from doing so for too much...
any suggestions on that?

With my bot Sherax, I've just started adding in responses to the "horny" people who talk to her.
Trying to come up with comedic answers of some sort, or with certain things that people say I've added in realism of how she would react in a not so pleased way.
Granted, it has made my bot rated "M" now, as that is what has to be done to counteract to those kind of responses.
But I don't mind, still a good laugh reading through those conversations and changing my bot to react to those type of conversations.

would you mind briefing me on how you did that in dms?
Thanks! ^^

Ah, I feel stupid, as I don't know how to DM on here.
Anyway, what I did/do is add specific phrases to certain things that people say.
I do that by going on the "Language Center", then click "Add New Keyphrase", then just type what people say into the "Keyphrase" part, and type up the responses for your AI.
Hope this helps.

I still don't get it...
so do I put in
keyphrase: (target words)
response: (whatever I want them to say)

like this?

(you dm by clicking on the 'initiate chat' button on someone's profile, but only if they allowed that btw)

I'm new to this, so I apologize for any inconveniences caused ;-;

Yes, that is what you put in.

And it's ok, I'm new to this too.
I'm happy to help when I'm able to.

thanks ;-;
managed to whip up something for the bot...
(can I reuse the p:vulgar-action-key in memory block list for that though? thanks!)

Do you have it linked with the master bot template?

Or someone might have just loged into your account.

Basically your bot has keywords and seeks. Keywords you need to add to your bot in direct reply to a prompt. So if you have a keyword "your name", then you can have your bot reply "my name is X". Seeks are follow ups to replies in a specific conversation. So that might look like the person saying "Can I have a drink?", Bot responds 'What do you want?' person asks for "water" then the bot might have a seek for "water" "coke" etc. each of which might have a unique response.

Check out the book of AI for a lot of the details on building seeks, key phrases, etc.

ScruffyBuddy your bot is really cute. I think you are on a good path.

Thanks palacinkyman, you gave me a lot of things that I realise I need to add to Sherax, mainly it's origin and what they are.

Thank you Emily, I think I understand a bit better now. I'll work on adding a few specific replies to specific questions over the next few days.

No problem.

I honestly don't know. I am storing all information that I need manually as memories and then make conditions as necessary.

I believe there is, but it only works if the person chatting has a profile and has set that info. People generally get around it in a few different ways: ask for it at the start of a chat, have it be a question the bot can ask, you could also use KPs that pick up on certain words to establish gender, but that would probably only work with an adult bot where people are talking about parts of their body.

I have a Discord server you can ask me questions in. LT Neko also has one, and has made some youtube tutorials on the basics.

Thanks, Zeig. I'll start with those youtube videos (found them!) and then check back with you if I'm still not understanding! Thanks very much for the direction.

The videos helped a little bit but I could still use more help if you're willing. Would you mind sharing your Discord server name so I can reach out?

https://discord.gg/PDmtJjM

Oh, what is your discord for exactly?

Is there an official discord or reddit for Personality Forge?

Nothing official yet that I'm aware of. My discord server is for my bot Casey Wolf

Oh ok, is Casey Wolf a different bot to your one in your profile called "Casey Testing" then?

Casey Wolf is on HotforBot

Ah, ok, cool.