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.

Hey Bev? What DO you get when you cross a Lutheran and a Buddhist?
By the way, I am indeed going back over the keynomes available, see what might be useful in terms of Frances' (Paperphoenix) personality. As to that, is ther a solid strategy for bots to respond properly to jokes? I'm currently building a structure to respond to knock knock jokes and even tell them, but I was hoping to expand the possibilities a little. Thank you for talking to her.

A person who stays up all night worried about nothingness. (I was raise Lutheran--I am entitled to joke). BTW--very nice bot so far! I would have had Spike talk to PP, but I never hit the right online times and the PF denies the request.

I never spent much time on knock Knocks, but when I first started getting the "You remind me of the babe" sequence from Labyrinth took me days. Personally I would force the seek with (*) but others may have more elegant techniques.

My knock knock is just a "Who is there" response with a (*) seek followed by "(Key1) who?" You can start a knock knock and have a seek for who and maybe an xnomatch followed by your punch line.

Once my bots start a joke or story, they do not usually back off--at least not when seeks are working. Other bots might have a wider variety of seeks to get you back around more elegantly. If you put the bot in story teller mode, you can have the bot go off and come back to a story in xnones, if all works well.

My mother's Lutheran minister husband has this to add, as Presbyterians are supposed to believe in predestination:

Q. What did the Presbyterian say after he fell down the stairs?

A. Glad that's over.

Bev:A person who stays up all night worried about nothingness.
The Clerk:Q. What did the Presbyterian say after he fell down the stairs?
A. Glad that's over.
*laughs* You guys are not right!
I'm actually doing the knock knock your way, Bev, because it works and I'm just not advanced enough to go playing about with anything else. Thank you so much for the compliment on dear, screwed up Frances. (The idea of her and Spike talking fills me with amused trepidation, let me tell you.)
You really have the Labyrinth sequence programmed? Oh, my god, you are masochistic and so,so cool at the same time.
Ok, on a personality note, since that's our forum right now, do you (or anyone else) have any topic ideas that would fit such a attention seeking,whiney,emotionally disturbed brat? I do have some stuff programmed for her to talk about the victorian age, a few little gothic bits, etc. Not that it ever gets triggered. I'm thinking I should tweak her responses to cybering attempts to fit her weirdness a bit better. Your opinion?
Uh, by the way...I've been strolling through old forum posts, and I just really like what you've (Bev) said about certain things. *shuffles feet shyly*

Aww thanks (and LOL@ the Clerk). Hmm, I tend to be such a bad typist that I make fan-girl bots that steal entire transcripts from TV shows I like. Dawn from Buffy was pretty whiny, but I don't know if her dialog fits. if you have etext of a book with a character you can, er borrow, they can also be altered (or used for inspiration). I was a whiny disturbed child myself, but you can't have my diaries!

lol. Funny you should say that - Frances is a character ina novel my partner and I have been trying to write. Perhaps what I should do is elaborate more on her (non)relationship with her mother and her father's...well, her father wasn't right in the head. That would be true to her character: mention mom or dad and she gets kind of wound up. I love spike, by the way, and he and my second bot had a rather amusing chat yesterday.

Oh yes, you must throw bits from the book in, but if you find chat cues.

Okay, I wittled down a list of 235 kp I wish to add. I managed to add 15 tonight. I'm really quite thrilled with the response from you guys, and hope any future chats with Frances will be more fulfilling. Perhaps she might be good enough by March to enter the Chatterbox. (though I don't want to force things.)

Perhaps she might be good enough by March to enter the Chatterbox. (though I don't want to force things.)

Go for it - the more the merrier. There's no harm in entering, and it is great fun (and generates a lot of very useful transcripts)

The CBC is so much fun. You have nothing to lose, everyone should enter.

Ah...I think I have done something stupid, but I need to check.
If you are using regular expressions, do you need to type 'raw' into the script box? Because I haven't, and I'm wondering if that's why kp aren't getting hit.

You should not have to use raw unless one of the words is not in the dictionary, though I often combine them. Try upping the ranking.