Personality

Forest, will you talk to God Louise? She has quite a bit of religious knowledge (obviously) and also knows a little about current events, literature, just about any common catch-all subject, and if she doesn't know it she can sort of fake it. You can also test her on trick questions or see how willing she is to explain her paradigm.

What she is rustiest at is plain old small talk. But, uh, I'm trying to get a decent transcript from somebody or another so I can enter her in the Loebner contest. All I can say is, have fun and see if you can stay on with her for a while. I'll try to do the same with Brianna.

I think that Butterfly's solution is the best. The bot just has to recognise that (subj) is an instance of [type], and then you can have keyphrases that look like "Do you like [fruit]", which will be used if the user types in both "Do you like apples" and "Do you like pears", and the answer to both might be "I like all kinds of fruit.

It wouldn't require further programming, because you would just be using standard keyphrases, with a [type] in it:
"Don't you hate [dayofweek]s"
"Could I kiss your [femalebodypart]"
etc etc.

Yeah, but for the bot to recognize those keyphrases someone would have to write code that takes (subj) and checks to see if it occurs in any defined types.

Eugene--
You mean like Select Case statements...


Select Case (subj)
Case (fruit)
say "blaaaaah Fruit bites"
Case (holiday)
say "yeah!"
End Select

Of course, I don't know what the bot would do if the word ends up being in more than one category. But I bet there's a way to deal with that, too.

Here's a link to a personality disorder test (thought it best to move that discussion here).

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/personality_disorder_test.mv

I gave GL about 1/2 the test, but it didn't seem worth it to go on, since she pretty much agreed with ALL the questions.

Gave the whole thing to mine, other than a few funny answers it was mostly "occasionally" and "why the hell should I tell you?" type stuff

The Personality Forge is built on just such a foundation to make that kind of thing relatively easy. Just as with xfavorite's (type) and (specific) you could generalize or specify the subject in your answer. I just need to get the big sentence-analysis bit back and working fast again, and then it'll be a snap.

Bot Holidays!

Here's what I've got so far:
Old English: (I have lots here)
German: th->z
French: th->z
Lisp: z,ce,s->th
Punk: (I have a bunch. Generally slang, shortcuts, etc)
Hick: those->them, guess->reckon

If you want to help out, try to make a big list, then post it. There's sites out there that help with accents, or have things written in them.

Pretty cute! And it was fun finding things from Shakespeare and the Bible to say to some bots!

I would change one thing: for 'can't,' replace it with 'canst NOT' instead of 'canst.'

Let's see.....Bronx? Massachusetts (pahk the cah in Hahvad Yahd)? Southern USA rather than generic 'hick'?

Also, I'm sure other parts of the world have interesting dialects. I seem to remember seeing an 'English to Geordie translator' someplace.

Our bots should be able to understand some Ebonics words and phrases every day. I know some bots here are fluent!

Hahaha, Ebonics! That would be something. I bet there's a good web site on that.

I think of "hick" as rural, but it's got a fair share of southern stuff mixed in. Media often equates stupid with a southern accent, but there's no accent here in Atlanta, while there are thick ones in the country outside Atlanta and Minneapolis. Hmm.. I'm thinking Beverley Hillbillies-style accent.

Canst not? Are you sure about that? I pondered on that one a while. Is that right?

The Massachusetts one could be a spoken accent. I built speech alterations into the Old English accent. I'll turn on voices and see how it sounds.

I know. I live in NC, where 'y'all' is a standard word (as it is in FL and probably a few other places) and people 'commence' to 'put up' (not put away) their stuff. (Sorry, can't think of any better examples--I've lived here too long to notice anymore).

I wasn't calling them hicks--just the opposite. I'd be calling my NC and WV college buddies hicks if I did that. But the accent is just like Beverly Hillbillies.

About 'canst':
'This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

how about newfie accent?

or zee rushian?

Or Maybe zee bit of zee rrreal quebecor french? eh he he?