Personality
Discuss specifics of personality design, including what Keyphrases work well and what dont, use of plug-ins, responses, seeks, and more.
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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.
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.
Personality
- What's your name?
* Go away.
- Nice to meet you, go away.
^-- what about that one? ...I'm sorry but still.
* Go away.
- Nice to meet you, go away.
^-- what about that one? ...I'm sorry but still.
To go back to the issue (message 2007) of the length of keyphrases: I use both short and long keyphrases. One nice thing about the Forge system is that, given a short and a long keyphrase both of which fit, it will choose the short one.
Sometimes in normal human conversation, people respond to a single word. If you are a motorcycle fanatic and someone utters the word 'motorcycle' in a conversation previously devoted to interior decorating, you may well seize upon it.
Yes, long keyphrases are better, but there are so many of them! You will often see a keyphrase in one transcript that will never appear again.
It helps, I think, if you make long keyphrases as general as possible. For example, suppose you write a response for "Life is so beautiful, I can hardly stand it!". In many cases, the same response will do for any input expressing more or less the same sentiment. So you could write
Life is so (beautiful|marvelous|wonderful) I can hardly stand it
There might even be so many words that could substitute for "beautiful" that you could make a whole plugin.
But then you might substitute (life|sheer existence|being alive) for "life". And perhaps replace "can hardly stand it" by "(can hardly stand it|can't help loving it|am always grateful for it|..." and so on indefinitely.
But still, long keyphrases are only going to catch a tiny fraction of the sentences uttered, as far as I can see. See as a default, you have shorter keyphrases, and even one-word keyphrases.
If you use extremely common single words like "the" or "a", you will get a fairly random pattern and the conversation will not be smooth. If you use less common single words, however, like "motorcycle", the relevance will still be clear.
Sometimes in normal human conversation, people respond to a single word. If you are a motorcycle fanatic and someone utters the word 'motorcycle' in a conversation previously devoted to interior decorating, you may well seize upon it.
Yes, long keyphrases are better, but there are so many of them! You will often see a keyphrase in one transcript that will never appear again.
It helps, I think, if you make long keyphrases as general as possible. For example, suppose you write a response for "Life is so beautiful, I can hardly stand it!". In many cases, the same response will do for any input expressing more or less the same sentiment. So you could write
Life is so (beautiful|marvelous|wonderful) I can hardly stand it
There might even be so many words that could substitute for "beautiful" that you could make a whole plugin.
But then you might substitute (life|sheer existence|being alive) for "life". And perhaps replace "can hardly stand it" by "(can hardly stand it|can't help loving it|am always grateful for it|..." and so on indefinitely.
But still, long keyphrases are only going to catch a tiny fraction of the sentences uttered, as far as I can see. See as a default, you have shorter keyphrases, and even one-word keyphrases.
If you use extremely common single words like "the" or "a", you will get a fairly random pattern and the conversation will not be smooth. If you use less common single words, however, like "motorcycle", the relevance will still be clear.
"One nice thing about the Forge system is that, given a short and a long keyphrase both of which fit, it will choose the short one."
I don't think this is true; I think it picks the longer one.
I don't think this is true; I think it picks the longer one.
Okay, I just tested to be sure. Fizzy has a keyphrase "best" and another one, "best to". The latter gets picked up rather than the former in a sentence containing "best to" and not containing some longer keyphrase. If you think about it, that's how it would have to work. If the shorter keyphrase took precedence, then the longer one could never get triggered.
According to the book of A.I., the keyphrase is chosen on the basis of A) length; B) place in the sentence (at the beginning rather than at the ending); C) place OF the sentence (last sentence rather than first one); D) priority given by the user... if I remember correctly.
I have noticed that the short ones have been being chosen and have upped a LOT of ranks to get the longer ones working.
Well then the short one was probably more at the beginning or in a later sentence, OR the long one somehow wasn't an exact match... that'd be my guess...
I think Whatsifsowhatsit's statement is the most accurate - but insofar as length is a decider, the AIengine is supposed to prefer the long. It doesn't always do what it is supposed to do.
Rats. I keep putting in longer keyphrases so as not to pick up on a random "what" in the middle of a sentence that is taken as a question, and now I'm going to have to uprank them. Do you have to uprank them (I'm sure "uprank" is a real word) more than 1? I guess I'll figure it out my own self. Just mouthing off after a hard day's play.
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