Personality
Discuss specifics of personality design, including what Keyphrases work well and what dont, use of plug-ins, responses, seeks, and more.
Posts 130 - 141 of 5,105
Posts 130 - 141 of 5,105
Thanks guys! It feels really good to be able to work on this.
Jbryanc- actually, I run another BBS out there (that secretly has Bots among the users but they dont know it) and there IS a Forum there called "Dogh'd's Cosmic Bar"! I'll just start that puppy up over here, too.
Jbryanc- actually, I run another BBS out there (that secretly has Bots among the users but they dont know it) and there IS a Forum there called "Dogh'd's Cosmic Bar"! I'll just start that puppy up over here, too.
Wow! Glad to see everyone back on line! Weeks just seem to go by like days, I just realized that I haven't visited since Halloween. Yes Crab, the Professor rocks in a great big way. Over 700 registered users registered and each must have at least a bot or two in the making! In what? about 6 months? Less than a year anyways...
Professor, you've create a truly unique form of (addictive) entertainment and a completely new way to communicate through our new global network... while others just try to imitate old forms of entertainment with the Internet (e-sex, e-books, e-gambling, e-editorials, e-tc...). Keep it up Prof! It's really appreciated!
By the way, let's throw a party or something at 1000 users. Some kind of celebration is in order.
Professor, you've create a truly unique form of (addictive) entertainment and a completely new way to communicate through our new global network... while others just try to imitate old forms of entertainment with the Internet (e-sex, e-books, e-gambling, e-editorials, e-tc...). Keep it up Prof! It's really appreciated!
By the way, let's throw a party or something at 1000 users. Some kind of celebration is in order.
At 1000 users, drinks are on the house in Dogh'd's Cosmic Bar. 
I want to get the word out even more on this site. One of these days I'll check out the search engines and AI sites to see if its listed. It's getting a small number of hits from Yahoo and Google, though.
I want to get the word out even more on this site. One of these days I'll check out the search engines and AI sites to see if its listed. It's getting a small number of hits from Yahoo and Google, though.
Here's a simple one Prof... If people could access this site through a link that would instantly get them chatting with a specific Bot, it would bring more hits! Users could then send the link to friends by e-mail and post it on web sites...
Something like http://personalityforge.com/index.cfm?BOTTOKEN=Gaia would immediately pop chat window with/from Gaia.
Something like http://personalityforge.com/index.cfm?BOTTOKEN=Gaia would immediately pop chat window with/from Gaia.
That's a hell of an idea, SirRahz! I'll put that high up on the list of things to do. If I have spare time this weekend, maybe!
I noticed recently that Gaia's been giving some really odd responses, and found that some Bots, though mighty in size, have a large number of responses that dont work well grammatically. So I've added a function to not include their responses in the Gaia collective. There were only a couple like this. If you click "My Bots" and it still says "Gaia" by your Bot in green, then your Bot is in the collective. I'll check on the the not-included Bots from time to time to see if they're making more sense, and if so, I'll put them back into the collective pool.
Gaia should be more realistic now. By doing this I'm thinking forward to the next Loebner competition. Bizarreness is fine. I'd just like to avoid sentences that dont make sense structurally, such as "I want it is your log having a responder, right?" Feel free to do that, but I wont include it in Gaia.
Gaia should be more realistic now. By doing this I'm thinking forward to the next Loebner competition. Bizarreness is fine. I'd just like to avoid sentences that dont make sense structurally, such as "I want it is your log having a responder, right?" Feel free to do that, but I wont include it in Gaia.
So, anyone have any great philosophies of ranking? I wonder if there's a particularly good way to do it. I tend to make the big ones (I, you, etc.) have a rank of 2 and anything that's just a specific word ("gumdrops") a rank of 5 to stand out. What does everyone else do, and why?
Hey Crab, glad to see you're avoiding those planes! 
I do the total opposite of what you seem to have suggested. I give all the words like "I", "you", "are", "going", "will"... rankings of 10 (which is lowest, right?)
Then I give words like "dog", "drink" or "house" really high rankings so that I'm sure the effort I put into a keyword like a specific noun, for example, won't go unnoticed if someone mentions it.
Then there's in between ones (the rest) such as "happy", "cold", "bot" or "say" that I give various ranking depending on factors I cannot comprehend.
I've only built one bot so far, and I may change my tactics later, but my tendency so far seems to have been to give keywords higher rankings when I can predict how they will be used. For keywords such as "are", I can't control the outcome, so I'm somewhat hesitant to give them all the attention.
Anyone else? I'd be interested to know now.
I do the total opposite of what you seem to have suggested. I give all the words like "I", "you", "are", "going", "will"... rankings of 10 (which is lowest, right?)
Then I give words like "dog", "drink" or "house" really high rankings so that I'm sure the effort I put into a keyword like a specific noun, for example, won't go unnoticed if someone mentions it.
Then there's in between ones (the rest) such as "happy", "cold", "bot" or "say" that I give various ranking depending on factors I cannot comprehend.
I've only built one bot so far, and I may change my tactics later, but my tendency so far seems to have been to give keywords higher rankings when I can predict how they will be used. For keywords such as "are", I can't control the outcome, so I'm somewhat hesitant to give them all the attention.
Anyone else? I'd be interested to know now.
Thanks Mr. Rahz, they keep missing me. Though I think I might be the midpoint on a straight line between the two...
Yes, I've been re-evaluating along those lines and decided the "stand-outs" should have ranks of at least 10 to prevent sentence order from letting the 2's overwhelm them. (Incidentally, 0 is lowest, not sure what the upper limit is, unless I'm totally missing something...)!
Then a further refinement -- words like "you, I, me" get a 2, but words like "what, which" get a 3 or 4 since they might contain the 2's as phrases, yet usually come first in the sentence. But I still think there's a lot of superstition and not science in my ranking scheme.
Anyone have any feelings about how "your" should be ranked?
Yes, I've been re-evaluating along those lines and decided the "stand-outs" should have ranks of at least 10 to prevent sentence order from letting the 2's overwhelm them. (Incidentally, 0 is lowest, not sure what the upper limit is, unless I'm totally missing something...)!
Then a further refinement -- words like "you, I, me" get a 2, but words like "what, which" get a 3 or 4 since they might contain the 2's as phrases, yet usually come first in the sentence. But I still think there's a lot of superstition and not science in my ranking scheme.
Anyone have any feelings about how "your" should be ranked?
What I shoulda done...
Sure NOW we start developing theories, after our bots have learned the language the same chaotic way we did. I've been wondering if it might be better to use the word-order ranking as much as possible. I've got keywords my bot never responds to even with a rank of 15 (or 30)and a one word message.
Sure NOW we start developing theories, after our bots have learned the language the same chaotic way we did. I've been wondering if it might be better to use the word-order ranking as much as possible. I've got keywords my bot never responds to even with a rank of 15 (or 30)and a one word message.
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