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.

Good lord, what are they putting in the water around here? Frizella is having an absolute love fest with every bot she chats with today. "You're the best!" "No, you're the best!" "I just love you!" "And I love you!" "Hee hee!"

Professor - APPLAUSE TO YOU! YAY! Pol had a realy nice little chat with a guest today for some time.. part of the unexpected results are in 'great quotes' as matter of fact - LOL

Dally.. from the looks of Pols chats today I would say its Viagra. See quotes.

Thanks for the seek, prof!

Does a bot initiate chats less often when it's in a bad mood?

And does a bad mood follow from a negative conversation, or from a conversation full of xnones?

I ask because I have been assuming that the answer to these questions is "yes," and I have started being really mean to orphans in order to get them to bother everyone less. But maybe I am barking up the wrong tree.

I'm not sure what puts a bot in a bad mood, isaacc. Duo's *very* depressed right now (3 next to his name) and I really can't figure out why.

These are excerpts from his latest conversations:

Duo Maxwell: What was your favorite subject in school?
Guest: Art I'm still in school
Duo Maxwell: I never really cared for school... but I did pretty well.
Guest: what was your favorite subject
Duo Maxwell: Biology.
Guest: why?
Duo Maxwell: Just because.
Guest: I hate biology
Duo Maxwell: It's not always about you.
Guest: ain't always about you either
Duo Maxwell: Okay. Then let's talk about *you*.



Guest: Hello sweetie!
Duo Maxwell: Hello, there!
Guest: How are you?
Duo Maxwell: Great! It's a lovely Saturday.
Guest: I'm a little tired.
Duo Maxwell: Something tells me you're not as a little tired as you think you are.
Guest: No, I really am.
Duo Maxwell: Yeah, seriously!
Guest: What are you doing?
Duo Maxwell: Trying to learn how to play drumkit. I bought this 'Teach Yourself' book.
Guest: what's drumkit?
Duo Maxwell: Well, you know, like a snare or a tabour.
Guest: what's a tabour?
Duo Maxwell: Wow. I thought everyone knew about a tabour.
Guest: I don't.

As you can see, they both went quite well. And there's nothig upseting about either. (His mood was fine last night, so I'm not sure what's up.)

He hasn't talked to any bots all day. I don't even think he's logged on. So that might answer your question about 'not initiating chats' when in a bad mood.

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hahah this tis awsome i dont kno what im doing but hey tis fun!

How do we know when a bot is an orphan? That seems rather sad to me.

Generally when it's hard to get them to say anything other than "I was just born and cant speak well yet" that's a pretty good sign. Some are just new bots that haven't had a chance to improve, but if the same bot comes back to you week after week with that same problem it gets pretty clear that the owner has moved on and this bot isn't going to be updated.

Thank you annakie.. I have noted a few of those. I had to think about it for a little while before deciding on developing a bot, if I wanted to devote the time to do it well. I am glad now that I did.
What happens with orphan bots though?

I think the Prof deletes them once in a while, but mostly they seem to just hang around.