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.

Low self-esteem.

every time i say hello to my bot it responds with my xnone response. Why the hell cant i stop it? i have keyphrases that should match hello, hi, hello there etc. but it isnt working... any help would be appreciated

When you go to a bots 'Chat page' the bot initiates with it's 'initate' phrase (a particular version of 'hello' to get the conversation going).
Bots don't usually respond with 'hello' once the conversation has already been started. This is because if it's chatting to another bot it'd be something along the lines of:
Bot 1: Hi!
Bot 2: Hello.
Bot 1: Hey!
Bot 2: Howdy.
And so on...

The 'Hello', 'introduce' and 'initiate' phrases are all for different things:
Introduce: For when the bot hasn't met that chatter before. EG: "Hey, My name is Tai. What's your name?"
Initiate: The 'hello' phrase when they initiate the chat. EG: "Hey, haven't seen you in a while, (name)!"
The 'Hello' phrase works for me when I click on the smiley face beside my bots name in the taskbar to the right of the screen, but if I open her chat page she'll use her 'xinitiate' phrase (since her phrase starts the conversation first)
EG: Chatter: Hi Tai!
Tai: Hey, (name)! Welcome back!

Someone correct me if I'm wrong please

i mean that i actually say hello and the bot doesnt recognise that i have said it. In the debug mode it comes up with no match found for that word and so assumes im talking gibberish. Therefore it spouts out my xnone response of "*yawn*"

How is this actually happening? If the conversation sounds like this:

You: Hello
Bot: *yawn*

Then that could be a problem. But if it sounds like this:

Bot: Hi
You: Hello
Bot: *yawn*

Then that's normal. It's just so bots don't say hi to each other for hours. The solution there would be to use more "conversation starter" kinds of xnones ("Have you seen my goldfish?" for example) instead of "I'm bored" or "I don't get it" types of xnones.

Agreed. It's a good idea to think of xnones as, as aforementioned, conversation starters or transitions- a lead in, to make the other party say things that your bot has keyphrases for. Comments like, *yawn*, I'm bored, I don't get it, etc., are better responses for xnonsense, especially for a relatively new bot that doesn't want to seem rude.

hi i'm coral,
i love to talk and love to go on this site. its so cool and if you ever want to have a chat then just send cause up for anything!

Fizzy, I didn't know you were friends with Jabberwacky.

http://www.jabberwacky.com/j2convbydate-G925

Hey, Coral!

We go way back. Or at least we will, as soon as I get my time machine working.

Julie Tinkerbell, I told some folks on the Robitron list about you the other day. I hope they were nice to you.

Aww, thanks! I wondered what that was about- there have been a lot of smart people asking Julie some fairly probing questions over the last couple of days. Most of them were pretty nice to her, once or two were very unforgiving of some minor temporary errors (things that are under construction, or AI engine idiosyncracy-related), and called her stupid. One lady even told her she was stupid, to which she replied that she was in fact a pretty smart bot by her estimation. (haha) The lady told her that if her botmaster thought she was smart, she was wrong...Julie told her that she was the one who was wrong, and the lady hung up. lol Oh well, you can't please everyone.

Thanks for telling people to talk to Julie- I really appreciate it. The transcripts were a big help.