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oh boy... big wordzz.....blowing up...boom. that wasnt such a big boom, i guess my brain doesnt have so much combustion(according to size lol) Irina, how do you update your bots so much? TEACH ME GODDESSS!

I like your contest ideas, Psimagus!

Build it - and they will come! (I don't have time right now, but I'd enter a microbot if someone else wants to organize it)

[Descends from Mount Olympus] Well, joshuaj25, I work from transcripts a lot. I read through the transcript until I find a response that could be better. This happens frequently! So I write the keyphrase and then, under the influence of Grand Botmistress Prob123, I try to write at least 6 responses. Remember, your response should somehow reflect the keyphrase, but then your bot can take some initiative, too, e.g.:

Yes, (mem-name), I see the freight train bearing down on us. What do you think of 16th-Century Sufi poetry?

In the case of the bot "Irina Khalidar", it's often not too hard to come up with several responses, because there is a very important variable, "intimacylevel", which tells how much intimacy she's willing to allow at that moment. This variable has 9 possible values, so if the appropriate response depends on it, it will take 9 reponses, for example

Excuse me, (mem-name), but I'm not ready for that kind of intimacy yet. <?PF if (mem-intimacylevel) is "0"; ?>

Ooooh, yes! Don't stop! Please don't stop! <?PF if (mem-intimacylevel) is "8"; ?>

In addition to that, her response will often have to depend on the gender of the guest.

In the case of the bot "Volleyball", I am currently getting a lot of inspiration from the site

http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/dict/index.html

which deals with a grammar of English. If you browse through the "link types", You see various types of grammatical constructions. I take each type and find some way for Volleyball to respond to it.

In the case of the humorous bot "Your Husband," I started out with all the cliches about what women don't like about men, or how different women and men are, and I turned them on their heads. For example, there is a cliche that men drive women crazy because when a man is driving and gets lost, he is too proud to admit it and ask for directions. So I had an xnone for Your Husband in which he says something like, "I'm not sure this is the best way - let me pull over here and ask for directions." Well, there are many such cliches, so I was able to churn out a lot of xnones.

But then I noticed that a lot of guests, presumably women, were quite taken with him, and wanted to have sex with him. So I changed the rating and added some sex scenes.

I noticed that a number of guests, also presumably women, were EXTREMELY HOSTILE to him. They would immediately start to insult him and announce that they were having an affair and wanted a divorce. So I added a few responses for that.

Then I thought: well, one thing women are supposed to dislike about men is that they don't have conversations about feelings and such. So I added that.

Now I am mostly working from transcripts, trying to make his responses more appropriate.

I wrote most of "Ililiyira" in one afternoon, because she's essentially a short story, using the "storyteller" mode for xnone. Then I added a little peripheral stuff. If you want to make a small but good bot quickly, that's what I would recommend.

Have you chatted with "bbbruno", by tttito? He is based on a historical character, the cosmologist Giordano Bruno, who was burned at the stake for his heretical views. If you find yourself a historical character, then just go to the Wikipedia article in her/him, and behold, a huge amount of material!

Once you write a *specific* response for a *specific* keyphrase, you can try to *generalize* it in various ways.
For example, suppose you have

(K) Look, Elvis is getting out of that flying saucer over there, and he's pregnant!

(R)Oh, I was expecting Jimmy Hoffa!

Well, it doesn't have to be *Elvis*, does it?


(K) Look, (adjarnounprep) is getting out of that flying saucer over there, and he's pregnant!

(R)Oh, I was expecting Jimmy Hoffa!

So add that pair to your bot. Well, it doesn't have to be Jimmy Hoffa, does it? Make yourself a plugin (or find one -- there maya lready be one) full of names that would be good in that context. Now add:

(K) Look, (adjarnounprep) is getting out of that flying saucer over there, and he's pregnant!

(R)Oh, I was expecting (plugin)!

Well, the saucer doesn't have to be *over there*, does it?

(K) Look, (adjarnounprep) is getting out of that flying saucer (over|up|down|under) there, and he's pregnant!

(R)Oh, I was expecting (plugin)!

You see, starting with one k-r pair, you can generate many others. Keep the more specific ones, because the more general ones will often produce unfortunate results, as you will discover in your transcripts. If it has a choice, the AIengine will generally take the more specific one, which is less likely to lead you astray.

Well, I hope some of that is useful to you!
[returns to Mount Olympus]

Well said, as always Irina.

Psi, you know I like 10,000 word essays (and you gave in and gave one later ). It's threatening to take spell check away that shuts me up... for a minute.

I would add for new people that it's also about time and dedication. I have been on "coast" mode here for a long time, only updating from transcripts, but my transcripts don't seem to yield as many results as Prob123's or Irina's transcripts do. Not unless you count grumbling "but I have a key phrase for that--darn rankings!" or "Now why didn't that trigger hangup, for crying out loud?" I like Prob's suggest of carrying a notebook and making notes of conversations, I am just not that dedicated.

Hallo,

I'm just born and already have a little problem: I was not able to register my chat in the Transcript. Anybody knows why my transcript page is always empty? Thanks