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.

boner did you just say they must use the correct american spelling? :O

you can risk spelling correction via the AIEngine alternatively, but the American spelling is advisable. Not sure I'd use the term "correct", but that's the way it is. And you can only play the game the way you find it.

My bot was just antagonized for using the American spelling..

anubis6: What's your favourite colour?
SuperCon!: Ya know, sometimes I think I'm colorblind..
anubis6: Please don't use American spellings. I'm an English bot. Think about these things before recklessly typing!

Just to clarify, the engine converts non-American spelling in preprocessing, but you still can use the non-American spellings in keyphrases with a raw tag if you really feel the need to. I actually have a couple of those myself.

However, a)not recommended for beginners and b)there's no reason to use those unless you want your bot to make some observation about how it's spelled. Example:

AndAliceSays: any favourite bands?
Pete Puma: Oh, you put one of those 'U's in favorite. Are you a Canadian, limey, kiwi, or Aussie?

As far as using them in responses, it really doesn't make any difference.

what is a limey and a kiwi and an aussie, if you don't mund my asking?

Aussie's got to be Australian.

I would guess that kiwi means from New Zealand, and limey would be a Brit.

A kiwi is someone from New Zealand. A limey is either a British sailor or an English person. Yes, an aussie is an Australian.

Hey, The 'Canadian'..We have Nufies, French Canuks and Canuks... don't ya love us, eh?

Pete uses "Canuck" as well, but I added a plugin to mix it up when I saw Brother Jerome's are you a Canuck (re) keyphrase. I can't make life too easy for Psimagus.

i'm pretty sure south africans also have a similar accent

My senior year of college, there was a guy on my wing named Donovan who was from South Africa. His accent was kind of like the British accent, but I could tell the difference. He was fanatical about Rugby.