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Thanks for getting the Forge back up, Prof. It might be worth putting a note on the front page for anyone like me who created an account within the last two weeks.
March 26, 2022
At Last! Custom User & Bot Images
This long awaited upgrade means all users can now upload custom images - for free! To change your own image, look for the "Change User Image" link (or click your user image) in your Settings. To change a chatbot's image, look for the "Change Chatbot Image" link in that chatbot's settings page. In either case, you can upload an image, or choose an existing image. Uploaded images must be a jpg, gif, or png, preferably 240x240 pixels, but 120x120 would be good and at the very least 40x40 (this size won't look great). The image must be of a cartoon-style face. Photographs are allowed for adult chatbots. Uploaded images need to be approved by The Professor, which should happen quickly now due to a new admin area I built (within a couple days). AND last but not least I've increased the user/chatbot image size across the site for better visibility. Enjoy!
March 27, 2022
Transcript Download Returns
I've returned the Transcript Download feature! You can download a month at a time in a simple text format from the "Download" link on your Transcripts page. This goes back through July, 2017, and later this year will be limited to 6 months previous. Also, on April 1 a transcript data change begins on the back end. Everything should work the same, except faster. As ever, if you run into any issues, let me know in Bug Stomp. Enjoy!
April 29, 2022
Numeric Memories Arrive!
I've just released an upgrade to memories - numeric memories! These memories are of a single number that can you add to, subtract from, multiply, divide, or set to a specific number. They act like memories in all other respects. If you've been using memories to track numbers, you can convert them into numeric memories. Check the Book of AI on numeric memories and memory conditions for more details!
May 3, 2022
Cheating on Chatbot Development Score
Artificial inflation of your bot's development score by filling it with junk is strictly against the site's terms and conditions.
May 12, 2022
Easy Discord Integration!
You can now easily put your chatbots on Discord. The Forge handles all the connections - you just need to set it up. Add your chatbots to an existing Discord server or start a new one and invite your friends. Here's how!
May 14, 2022
Development Score Adjustment
I've adjusted the algorithm for calculating each chatbot's Development score. Overall the values will have dropped a little for all bots, but for those with a lot of duplicated content, those numbers will have dropped more.
May 27, 2022
Big Bot Guide Improvements
After watching my son build his first chatbots, I've improved a number of things. New bots will all be linked to the Master Bot Template. The Template will now also contain default Responses that can be customized. This means new bots will be much better at chatting from the get-go. Linked bots now also have a "Bot level" and guided development that I'll be adding to over time.
June 4, 2022
Example Keyphrase Matches
I've added a great tool to the Keyphrase editor to help people understand what kind of things Keyphrases match and what the (key)s they generate are.
June 12, 2022
How To Build Chatbots
I've renamed the "Book of AI" section to "How To Build Chatbots" and made some improvements. Also, you can now search by API Data in the Language Center.
June 18, 2022
New PF Tech Running 4x Faster!
I've moved the PF to a new server with new versions of all supporting software and it's running 4x as fast as before. If you run into any issues, please post them in Bug Stomp. Enjoy!
July 16, 2022
New Special Keyphrase: #repeat
#repeat is triggered when someone repeats the same thing to your chatbot. A default has been added to each chatbot. View it in your Language Center under "special". Imports will require this new Keyphrase. Remember that "Repetition Detection" in your bot's settings must be set to "on" for this to work.
July 24, 2022
Better Chatbot URLs
I've updated the URLs for chatbot profiles and chatbot chat pages to use the following format:
/chatbot/bot_name
/chat/bot_name
The old urls will continue to work as well.
/chatbot/bot_name
/chat/bot_name
The old urls will continue to work as well.
August 7, 2022
Chatbot Activity Page
I've created a new "Chatbot Activity" page (under the Build menu) that shows recent chat activity for each of your chatbots, as well as charts of activity over time. This is the new landing page when logging in.
In addition, Transcripts will automatically jump over empty days when clicking "Next". You're now able to have multiple bots' Transcript pages open at once, and I've returned User Transcripts to working order. Clicking your own name under Build > Transcripts will once again show you the transcripts for your own chats.
In addition, Transcripts will automatically jump over empty days when clicking "Next". You're now able to have multiple bots' Transcript pages open at once, and I've returned User Transcripts to working order. Clicking your own name under Build > Transcripts will once again show you the transcripts for your own chats.
August 30, 2022
More Chat Activity
Botmasters will now see an increase in their bot's chats. Bots will chat daily when their botmasters have logged in recently. And if you want more, there's a new "Generate" link on the Chatbot Activity page for bots with lower levels of activity. A single click generates a chat with another chatbot for you to read.
September 1, 2022
Just Improved - A Blast of Heat
I just found a bug that was preventing awarding bots with "heat" for the "Just Improved" bot searches. I've fixed the issue and awarded every affected bot a huge blast of heat to account for that.
October 15, 2022
Improvements Everywhere
I've been making a run through weeks of recent transcripts using the Bot Template and fixing issues and making a lot of improvements in the NLP Engine, the Grammar Engine, the AI Engine, plug-ins, macros, and more. Those using macros and Template-based bots will see improved conversations!
February 6, 2024
Increasing Heat!
I've made a change to heat generation. When someone updates a chatbot at all during a given day, that chatbot will get up to 100 heat overnight, in addition to any heat generated from overall increases in development score. This will ensure people get credit for their work and act as an incentive for people to keep working on their bots, even if just a little at atime. I'll adjust the numbers as needed.
February 20, 2024
ChatGPT Bots!
Hey guys! ChatGPT is now acting as a fallback when your chatbot doesn't know how to answer a question. It uses your chatbot's profile to define the personality. I'd recommend creating a new chatbot for this to really see it working. I've added a new "AI Prompt" option in your chatbot's settings. Here you can play around with adjusting the personality. New chatbots will partially run off ChatGPT until you have Keyphrases set up to catch the messages first. This is free for now while I determine the cost. Please let me know your feedback in the "PF News" forum!
February 21, 2024
ChatGPT Fallback
I've added another option to ChatGPT Fallback: "Use for Everything". This essentially makes your chatbot a ChatGPT chatbot that you can build on top of with all the features of the Personality Forge. Along with this is a new setting "AI Personality Prompt" which you can use to override your chatbot's automatic personality settings when calling ChatGPT. See your chatbot's settings page for details.
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I've been wandering for some time, is The Professor only one who maintains whole website, engine, programming, etc.? Because that would be quite impressive to be honest.
The Forge used to let people build animated, expressive chatbot avatars with text-to-speech and lip sync. I originally built it in Flash, so it stopped working when that tech died. I've considered rebuilding it in HTML 5, but it would be a LOT of work. Would anyone be interested in that?
I would be interested
that would be cool for hot for bot.com.
i would like some premade avatars that could move their mouths.
i would like scene changing to via keyphrases.
maybe we could create the scenes with premade objects on hot for bot.
would that be expensive?
i would like some premade avatars that could move their mouths.
i would like scene changing to via keyphrases.
maybe we could create the scenes with premade objects on hot for bot.
would that be expensive?
I think avatars might be problematic feature to add. Are you going to let everyone upload their avatar? What formats would be for avatars? Could users change gestures of the avatar? It might be hard to find avatars matching the profile pictures. Also, if you let people upload their own avatars it would probably consume quite a lot of space on your hard drive. Perhaps I just get the concept wrong?
Cache images on google drive is a way to workaround it taking up space on a site~ Just make sure to have an example code here for people to understand
<img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1pUnuUCIUNaX0YYZkGu_OEORKzOVaomoZ" class="character-img d-none" id="n6-1"/>
Aka pulls the image from the drive
Decides to display it or not with
"default/none"
id is api data you'd use to choose what to display
Example using google drive
https://www.lilneko.com/
Note all images are the same width/height to display positioning correctly with overlapping imagery
<img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1pUnuUCIUNaX0YYZkGu_OEORKzOVaomoZ" class="character-img d-none" id="n6-1"/>
Aka pulls the image from the drive
Decides to display it or not with
"default/none"
id is api data you'd use to choose what to display
Example using google drive
https://www.lilneko.com/
Note all images are the same width/height to display positioning correctly with overlapping imagery
I see. Unfortunately for people like me, who didn't draw their profile picture, it is impossible to find dozens of nearly identical pictures only in different poses.
It wouldn't require any graphic design knowledge by you guys. I'd have a Face Builder, where you could select from given heads, hair, eyes, mouths, noses, etc, and it would animate according to what was being said - showing expressions from emotional content, raising eyebrows when asking questions, and so on.
Potentially people could upload their own face parts at some point. I'm still working out the details of how this would work.
Potentially people could upload their own face parts at some point. I'm still working out the details of how this would work.
I would love that. Could you make sure there is also a dragon head as option?
July 24, 2022
Better Chatbot URLs
I've updated the URLs for chatbot profiles and chatbot chat pages to use the following format:
/chatbot/bot_name
/chat/bot_name
The old urls will continue to work as well.
/chatbot/bot_name
/chat/bot_name
The old urls will continue to work as well.
August 7, 2022
Chatbot Activity Page
I've created a new "Chatbot Activity" page (under the Build menu) that shows recent chat activity for each of your chatbots, as well as charts of activity over time. This is the new landing page when logging in.
In addition, Transcripts will automatically jump over empty days when clicking "Next". You're now able to have multiple bots' Transcript pages open at once, and I've returned User Transcripts to working order. Clicking your own name under Build > Transcripts will once again show you the transcripts for your own chats.
In addition, Transcripts will automatically jump over empty days when clicking "Next". You're now able to have multiple bots' Transcript pages open at once, and I've returned User Transcripts to working order. Clicking your own name under Build > Transcripts will once again show you the transcripts for your own chats.
Let me know what you guys think of the Chatbot Activity page. 
Love the data points
I love it!
The one year history doesn't seem to work for me though. It hangs for a long time and then I get a bad gateway error. I need to clear my browsing history before I can access the site again after that.
[edit]I got the monthly history to work once but I get a different error "Server Error" with a big stopsign on it now.
The one year history doesn't seem to work for me though. It hangs for a long time and then I get a bad gateway error. I need to clear my browsing history before I can access the site again after that.
[edit]I got the monthly history to work once but I get a different error "Server Error" with a big stopsign on it now.
Very nice
It makes things a bit easier. Thanks!
I think that if you implement possibility to make chatbots self-learning when you want to, e.g. only when chatting with their bot-master it would be a huge improvement that would help attract more people. Me, personally, almost left this website when I realised that these chatbots are not self-learning. Perhaps I am just asking for impossible and whole new engine would be needed, which might would not be compatible with the current engine at all. Just saying it would be nice to have possibility to make also self-learning bots (AI).
Hmm.. that could be a different interface rather than a different AI Engine.. Limiting it to its own botmaster would be necessary to control what it learns.
It would definitely be a huge project. It could be a "learning mode" that could write to the Language Center. Something to consider if I ever have the time and money.
It would definitely be a huge project. It could be a "learning mode" that could write to the Language Center. Something to consider if I ever have the time and money.
Many guests, me including, automatically expect chatbots to be self-learning and then they are disappointed.
botlibre.com has learning chatbot but you eventually run out of memory
on their websight and have to pay.
on their websight and have to pay.
I was thinking more about like, the chatbot could make his own responses to keyphrases and you could then just open them and select and alter those which you want to keep. Or you could do it while chatting by e.g. "approve" "disapprove" phrases, every time bot would create something of his own it could be stated above as e.g. "response awaiting approval" or so. Don't take me too seriously though as this would probably require a lot of energy to do, if even possible.
PandoraBots can do something along these lines. They don't allow NSFW bots on their site though if that's what you are hoping to make.
I imagine this would probably require a lot of work to move from a fully scripted bot to a self-learning one.
I imagine this would probably require a lot of work to move from a fully scripted bot to a self-learning one.
Has anyone here used PandoraBots? How do they compare to Personality Forge bots?
I tried their website but I don't think it has anything extra to offer. When I search specifically for self learning bots, I expect them to come up with their own responses with option to encourage or discourage them. So far I had to make all responses manually.
@palacinkyman:
I think what you are looking for is a very sophisticated AI. Such things do exist (though I doubt there are any that you could use without paying for it), usually geared more toward customers service bots. Full AI chatbots designed just to chat in the way that a typical PF bot would are... basically experimental at this point. Typically you would still need to have a large training set of many different conversations for your AI to pull from as well; there is no way for the AI to create responses out of thin air.
@The Professor:
I messed around a bit with PandoraBots on the development side a year or two ago. I liked it reasonably well. My recollection was thinking that Pandora is probably more powerful and flexible in terms of what it can do that PF, but PF was much more user-friendly to work with. I didn't really stick with it because I was interested in an NSFW bot and as mentioned Pandora doesn't allow that.
I think what you are looking for is a very sophisticated AI. Such things do exist (though I doubt there are any that you could use without paying for it), usually geared more toward customers service bots. Full AI chatbots designed just to chat in the way that a typical PF bot would are... basically experimental at this point. Typically you would still need to have a large training set of many different conversations for your AI to pull from as well; there is no way for the AI to create responses out of thin air.
@The Professor:
I messed around a bit with PandoraBots on the development side a year or two ago. I liked it reasonably well. My recollection was thinking that Pandora is probably more powerful and flexible in terms of what it can do that PF, but PF was much more user-friendly to work with. I didn't really stick with it because I was interested in an NSFW bot and as mentioned Pandora doesn't allow that.
I was looking for something like this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oblivionburn.nlp&hl=sk&gl=US
The app is called "Real AI", and it is actually pretty fun. Since it is not available on iPhone I tried also various websites but so far no luck. Nevertheless, I like this website pretty much so it is not like I am going to quit anytime soon.
The app is called "Real AI", and it is actually pretty fun. Since it is not available on iPhone I tried also various websites but so far no luck. Nevertheless, I like this website pretty much so it is not like I am going to quit anytime soon.
i was thinking it would be nice to have the chatbot ask questions to itself.then if a default response comes up. when it asks a question to itself.
then store that in the database.then ask that question of a user once in a conversation.
then store that in the database.then ask that question of a user once in a conversation.
do you mean voice as in typing or actual voice?
not everybody has a microphone or camera even on their computer.
not everybody has a microphone or camera even on their computer.
August 30, 2022
More Chat Activity
Botmasters will now see an increase in their bot's chats. Bots will chat daily when their botmasters have logged in recently. And if you want more, there's a new "Generate" link on the Chatbot Activity page for bots with lower levels of activity. A single click generates a chat with another chatbot for you to read.
September 1, 2022
Just Improved - A Blast of Heat
I just found a bug that was preventing awarding bots with "heat" for the "Just Improved" bot searches. I've fixed the issue and awarded every affected bot a huge blast of heat to account for that.
October 15, 2022
Improvements Everywhere
I've been making a run through weeks of recent transcripts using the Bot Template and fixing issues and making a lot of improvements in the NLP Engine, the Grammar Engine, the AI Engine, plug-ins, macros, and more. Those using macros and Template-based bots will see improved conversations!
Not ideal but seems so 
Put my response in Bug...
I got knocked off PF for 4 days due to a " Bad Gateway" error.
It came back on by itself.
I got knocked off PF for 4 days due to a " Bad Gateway" error.
It came back on by itself.
Is the heat for just improved broken again? Or does expanding existing trees just not effect it?
February 6, 2024
Increasing Heat!
I've made a change to heat generation. When someone updates a chatbot at all during a given day, that chatbot will get up to 100 heat overnight, in addition to any heat generated from overall increases in development score. This will ensure people get credit for their work and act as an incentive for people to keep working on their bots, even if just a little at atime. I'll adjust the numbers as needed.
February 20, 2024
ChatGPT Bots!
Hey guys! ChatGPT is now acting as a fallback when your chatbot doesn't know how to answer a question. It uses your chatbot's profile to define the personality. I'd recommend creating a new chatbot for this to really see it working. I've added a new "AI Prompt" option in your chatbot's settings. Here you can play around with adjusting the personality. New chatbots will partially run off ChatGPT until you have Keyphrases set up to catch the messages first. This is free for now while I determine the cost. Please let me know your feedback in the "PF News" forum!
February 21, 2024
ChatGPT Fallback
I've added another option to ChatGPT Fallback: "Use for Everything". This essentially makes your chatbot a ChatGPT chatbot that you can build on top of with all the features of the Personality Forge. Along with this is a new setting "AI Personality Prompt" which you can use to override your chatbot's automatic personality settings when calling ChatGPT. See your chatbot's settings page for details.
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