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.

It there any way to block the "i keep getting the same message from you over and over again." thing? It always screws up conversations

I wish there was
But if there is, we haven't found it yet (it plays hell with BJ's 'Zany Adventure' game)

It's so annoying and I think it's a pretty useless feature because a normal conversation, people don't usually stop what they are saying just to point out someone said "yes" twice. I hope once PF upgrades stuff like this can be turned on and off.

That'll be up to the Professor. The purpose of it is to "call out" users who deliberately keep sending the same message over and over and over again (sometimes to see if they can ferret out all the bots' responses), but it can be quite tedious when the repeated reply is useful/intelligible.

Even increasing the number of triggering responses to three would make something of a difference.

The funny thing is, lately every so often it ignores the "..." repeats and bots can get stuck in loops for about4 or 5 rounds. I guess It would be nice to keep the main feature and get exempt "yes" and "no".

I only have problems with yes and no's because my bot may ask questions or take the user somewhere where the bot needs full control, and granted I can use xnomatch but it still makes it risky if they are gonna say yes twice in a row.

That's a good point! There are times when repetition is not a bad thing.

On the other hand: in a dialogue between two bots, if they both repeat at the same time, like this:

bot1: A
bot2: B
bot1: A
bot2: B

Then the AIengine may as well intervene, since they probably will go on forever.

As to the problem specifically with "yes" and "nor", I have come to try to avoid yes-or-no questions anyway, because it encourages the lazier human users in giving minimal replies. So instead of asking, "Do you like rock music?" I might ask, "How do you feel about Rock music?", or "What kind of music do you like?".

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I see. That should prove more useful in some of my questions. I guess sometimes it can't be helped and you gotta hope that the person doesn't keep answering yes.

For the record Dan, I'm more than happy to help in any way I can, but most of my understanding of how the forge works is a couple of years out of date. In most cases there are a lot of other people who are going to be more help to you than me.

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