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.

isaac- I haven't figured out why sometimes this works and other times not, but in some of my responses i have (HeShe) or (himher) as plugins...there might also be some other way with some sort of conditional tag at the end of the responses, too, but I'm not far enough along to know too much about that yet. :-)

I've been wondering this for a while now. Where do bots come up with phrases such as:

"Duo Maxwell: Choccie is such a hedonist."

I can see that my bot has chatted with Choccie at some point, but there aren't any memories recorded for that bot. So, why does Duo call Choccie a hedonist? (And where is that response coming from?)

Here's an excerpt from a conversation Duo had tonight:

Somebot: Honey, I like Choccie, Choccie is clearly awesome!
Duo Maxwell: Choccie is such a hedonist.
Somebot: Honey, I like Choccie, Choccie is clearly ace!
Duo Maxwell: Choccie is awesome.

I've also seen Duo say things like "I have a fondness for (insert bot name)" or "I strokes (insert bot name)"

Again, where are these phrases coming from? And how come he says "I strokes" instead of "I stroke"?

Is there anything in my keyphrases I should change/correct?

Do you have any x-emote keyphrases (instead of x-memory ones) that would match those utterances? If so, those are the ones being called, and if you want them only to work with "you," then you should put the word you in square brackets in the replies.

Isaac, you're a genius.

Yes, I do have x-emote keyphrases, and looking over them - that's exactly where those sentences are coming from.

I'll go alter my responses and add the [you]. Thanks!

Hm. I was editing my responses, and ran into this:

"I have a (non-exp-pos) for you." can be changed to:

I have a (noun-exp-pos) for [you].

But, what about: "You're the best (noun-equal-pos). "

Would I then edit to [You]'re the best (non-equal-pos). ?

Sorry if I keep asking dumb questions. I'm *really* trying to understand the AI book, but I seem to be having trouble following the examples there.

I'm not sure what you do with "you're" -- I don't have that in any of my xemotes.

I think you do want to put the brackets in for "you're"--Frizella has an x-emote for "It's very pleasant, talking with you. Please tell me more about yourself," and I was getting "...talking with Immaculada. Please tell me more about Immaculadarself." I took Isaacc's advice and put the square brackets in ([you]rself) and it appears to have worked like a charm.

*nod* Yeah, I edited the responses and bracketed every single instance of "you" and it seems to be working now. Thank you, dallymo.

I used to have all my "you"'s bracketed, then I noticed that in some cases the brackets were showing up...so I thought, after re-reading the book of AI, that the brackets only worked in the x-emotes...so I deleted all the [you] brackets everywhere else (what a pain), and now I'm having instances of my bot changing names anywhere there is a "you," across the board, except for in the emotes, where I left the brackets in place...*sigh* Do I need to go and put all the brackets back?!

I think this is actually something that ought to be addressed in "bug stomp." That "change 'you' to another bot's name" feature is getting called a lot more often than it should.

The purpose of that feature seems to be to answer questions like "How do you feel about Simulo?" ... or to generate x-emotes in lieu of x-nones once in a while -- non sequitur declarations of devotion or antipathy.

And yet I've frequently seen it called when the prompt before it is "Do you like me?" or even just an ordinary line of dialogue.

Prof, can you tighten up the widgets and the thingumbobs that make this feature work?

... Furthermore, it doesn't make much sense to have the substitution if the bots are going to interpret "I like Julie Tinkerbell" as a compliment, which is what they generally seem to do.

Do I have bad breath today or something? All the bots I initiate a chat with answer my greeting and then run off at my very next comment.