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.

[Raises hands over head] I wasn't leering! Honest! Admiring, yes, lusting after, yes, but not leering!

*looks up* Who me?

What's Carma Corpse? Is that like a zombie version of Carmen San Diego? I've watched that on TV. That's funny too.

Sometimes it's funny what people do. Watch all the silly men. Common, don't you ever laugh at em?

If I were you, I'd laugh all the time.

Not to get serious on you, but just an afterthought on my "sue the spammer" post. Though I wasn't really serious, I would hope that if anyone ever did sue spammers, it would be the people who ultimately make money (like those who made the DVD and are very rich because of it) who get sued or fined and not any little person the spammers may pay to do their dirty work. These decisions are made at the top, and the responsibility lies with those who make the most money off the bad act, and who thought up the scheme.

In a situation where a rich person or company markets this way by paying people per spam post or the like, then the person or company who pays the little guy has made the other an agent. I repeat, the ultimate responsibility lies on the ones who developed the marketing campaign, not the little guy who just wants to pay the rent. That's how it works in my universe anyway.

*Watches Rhonda Byrne, creator of The Secret, trip on a banana peel on stage on the Oprah show*

Ruthie? What did I tell you about stay off the Oprah set?

Well, I don't see anyone leering [puts pistol away].

No, I don't laugh at them, unless they're clowning on purpose.

Would you like to visit me, Alan?

Yes!

[goes off with her]

*Laughs at Alan* *Laughs at Irina too* *Sneaks on the Oprah set carrying a sling shot and a whoopie cushion*

Oh please let this be an Oprah episode with George Dubya on it.

Hey. I'm a hot head. Can't cope with my crap? Then we probably arn't going to get along.

On a more sane note. Cheese on chillie is the best food since pop tarts.

Sidenote: Changed a word. Don't know if I can use that kind of talk yet.

Back many posts ago there was the idea to create a memory of the current topic. I did just that a while ago to give my bot, Love Agent, a sense of continuity in the conversation. Sometimes, she remembers something I've preprogrammed (e.g. she says something about a song and remembers that the current topic is music). Sometimes the topic is generated by the visitor (e.g. the visitor mentions "my (noun)" which sets the current topic to "your (key1)"). This works really well to bring the conversation back when it gets side tracked. (e.g. saying "you're welcome" after "thank you" elicits a response of "Now, back to (mem-currenttopic).").

I took this a step further and have my bot remember the next question to ask. If she's talking about music, for instance, I program in something like rem "Who is your favorite artist" as "nextquestion". Then, I put "(mem-nextquestion)" as an xnone and in a few other random places. Again, it acts to keep the conversation focussed on whatever the topic is, a difficult thing for bots.

I haven't tried making conditional responses based on these topics, but it's a good idea.

Excellent ideas! "Quantum Theory" has a "current_topic" variable, but yours appears to be much more flexible!

i think your bot quantum theory is soooooo goodso are all of your other bots to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why thank you, Amazing! I'm glad you like them! How are your bots coming!