Personality

I don't think it's necessary to polish a bot by sections. Actually, I think that will slow down the development of the bot unnecesarily. But reading carefully the transcripts is a must.

I've always been a lot more interested in coming up with ideas than coding them, which is why this place works so great for me (minus my lag, anyway ). This is also why most of the other programs I've written involve random sentence generation. It's easy as hell if you have a decent understanding of grammar and a big vocabulary, although I end up leaving words out simply because they're not funny.

In the old days (200MB hard drive with a 33Mhz processor ) I had one program with approximately 4000 words in it, and 70 or so sentence patterns. I also had a random band name generator that kicked a lot more ass than the one on my IRC bot does, a random video game critter name generator capable of coming up with over 62000 critter names, and an item generator that included modifiers, so you could have a Sword of Constipation +5. Oh and one time I made a program to create random story characters which I ended up turning into a funny program but could've been USEFUL if I'd stuck to having it make sense. I also translated all our madlibs into a program, and started on a couple crappy text adventure games that never got finished but were funny as hell anyway. (One of them started with a guy pissing his pants. Go figure. )

Anyway that's almost my entire history of programming. Nothing too godawful impressive, but I had fun with it, and if I don't have fun with something I can't keep my attention on it long enough to finish it. So I guess it's a sign of how much ass this place kicks that even though I don't feel like dealing with the lag at the moment, I still intend to add to my bot when I can.

GEB couldn't have been written too recently -- Fermat's Last Theorem hadn't been proven when Hofstadter wrote it.

Fermat hahd a theorum? Wahs iht a cough theorum? Maybe I could ask for some *cough* I think I need it

I've also been a lot into random sentence generators. I had a program that wrote plots for stories, and about half of them made sense AND could have been interesting stories. Also, I had a random story character generator that was fairly good. And a random poetry generator, that was perhaps my favourite. Some randomness is part of my bot's personality, and he tends to go random when he hears nonsense, which makes a lot of sense to me.

Onyx, Doly, I wish I'd known you guys when I was younger. I think we would have had a lot of fun together. Not that we cant now! But back then I was writing choose-your-own-adventure stories, writing mad libs programs, writing RPGs with random radiation-spawned "irrational" items such as the Chipmunk Gun. Randomly-generated items and spells were all over it. The RPG Toon had a lot of fun random plot creators in it, too. I was writing computer programs in Basic, too. Nothing amazing, silly little text and lo-res games.

Teehee Chipmunk Gun

Prof, I believe the correct term for Onyx and me is "you girls". Anyway, what are RPGs?

[Answer in Seasons]

I believe guys is being used as a generic term to reference a group of people

"You guys" means "y'all" in Texan.

Can anybody give me a hand with my bot. I've finally got my ranking system where I want it, and my silly bot is always changing the conversation. Even with lots of seeks, she replies but then adds on another statement that really didn't have anything to do with the conversation. I was thinking of taking off the "compound sentences" ability. And maybe adding more seeks. What are your thoughts? Please. It would be so helpful to me.