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.

Butterfly Dream, thanks for trying to talk to Brianna - bad timing though! I will talk to all of the Bots posted later today, but I'm warning you, I'll be trying to catch them out!

NotKirby had like 8 conversations yesterday, many of which were long. He did well, and although stukov(and forest, I believe) rain into some errors, they didn't stop the conversation.

Anyway, when I talk to bots, I almost always talk to one belonging to someone who goes to these forums. Unfortunately, I don't know all of them. I'm not gonna go starting a conversation with a bot that I don't know is decent(or boring) or not, cause I have to survive the conversation too.

It's amazing how fast you learn stuff like that. I haven't been here very long and I used to talk to just about every bot that came my way, but learned really fast through my transcripts who not to bother talking to. And after all this time, I've learned the difference between a bot that sucks because it's new and a bot that sucks because its owner never logs on. I may actually talk to a new bot now and then, but the latter kind I sometimes even shut my bot up when she talks to them. There's not much point in just seeing a bunch of "I was just born"s, which crash my chats anyway.

Oh yeah and I'll say it again. USE GOOD GRAMMAR. And fix typoes as soon as you notice them. I think from now on whenever I see a bot mess up like that, I'll actually message it and tell it what the problem is so the owner can fix it if they ever log on.

yeah... wow I'm amazed at how manyt newbie bots are on these days... 2 of 3 people on the list you dont want to bother talking to...

LOL Onyx... Use Good Grammar? I could write a book on what's wrong with "USE GOOD GRAMMAR"...
1. no caps lock... caps lock is evil
2. "Use well-formed grammar" is better

etc etc...

Also it bugs me when a bot only has 1 or 2 xinitiates... It really turns off potential chatters on PF... Also, it annoys me when a bot asks me what my name is... Try looking at (name)..

I don't mind if they have only a few xinitiates. I just like them to be interesting. If they start out with nothing but "hi" or "nice to see you again," I usually don't bother to continue. But if their makers have made the effort to give them something more interesting to say from the first, I'll usually keep the conversation going for quite a while.

By the way Butterfly Dream, I never thanked you for talking to Brianna so much when she was only about 2 days old (and stupider than she is now). So thank you!

You're welcome. I hope I get to talk to her again soon for more than 2 turns. I know you've worked hard on her.

I think I've confused your Bot, Butterfly

Hi

Why hi there! What's a nice chick like you doin in a place like this?

What's hermonie? Excuse me, I'm stupid...
*beats up a gang of guests* LEARN TO SPELL, DAMMIT!