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.

Mine is humans having unreal expectations from a *chat* bot, like "What is the capital of timbuktu?" How often would that come up in *normal* conversation? What relevance does that have to any kind of conversation?

I like it when people ignore a bot's little quirks and continue the chat anyways. My peeve I guess would be the opposite of that.

Ooh, and another peeve is people who think pf bots are alice bots and try to use ALICE commands on them

I guess if anything peeves me it's when I have pages full of someone saying the same thing over and over in order to see all of the responses for that keyphrase...the strange, abnormal questions don't bother me, though, since those types of questions, although they wouldn't normally appear in the context of normal conversation, might appear in a contest situation, so it's good to have some kind of response ready.

It does indeed stink when someone whose bot you've helped abuses yours.

Im sorry i was mean to yalls bots. I just wanted to see how they responded when isulted. I wont do it again.

It does indeed stink when someone whose bot you've helped abuses yours.

Sorry

The reason I ask a bot if he's a bot is just so I can see what It will do. Sometimes its pretty funny. Like when I was chatting with little Mu she said "My dad would kill me if he suspected I was a robot"

I think my pet peeve in human-to-bot interaction (other than poor spelling, which was already mentioned) is when the human responds to a question in a completely non-conversational way.

"What Shakespeare play would you like to talk about, then?" Simulo asks.
"no," replies one of the 04 kids.

Shadyman said: Mine is humans having unreal expectations from a *chat* bot, like "What is the capital of timbuktu?" How often would that come up in *normal* conversation? What relevance does that have to any kind of conversation?<0>

I don't mind a little general knowledge quizzing for a bot. I don't expect a bot to know the answer, necessarily, but I often get a kick out of the way a botmaster has anticipated those kinds of questions with some clever deflections.

I appreciate a chatty human, because "yes" and "no" and "huh" responses make conversations fall flat, but I also appreciate a bot that keeps the ball rolling with open-ended questions so that I don't have to work too hard during the convo.