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.

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I'm more than happy to help in any way I can, but most of my understanding of how the forge works is a couple of years out of date.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.

Hi, are there any lesbians out there who wanna chat to me?

how bout a reserved hetero crossdresser , just comin out , wanna talk 2 me ???
very new here .
havent even created a bot yet .

my bos are rubbish irina

CORWIN THANKS FOR THE TEXT

I think it's a pretty useless feature because a normal conversation, I just got a long page filled with 'why'? I kind of wish it had kicked in about the tenth time.

I don't know if this is the right place to post this or not ...but how can you make a HANGUP Response work with a seek command. I tried 'xnomatch', but the program ignores it as if there was no seek command. Does anyone know how to fix this?

HANGUP, can't be part of a seek or a phrase. you have to just have it as the only response to a keyphrase. then you just type HANGUP

You could have HANGUP as the response on a seek, if you want. I don't know of any reason why that wouldn't work...except that I've been seeing a lot of missed seeks in my transcripts lately.