[pandorabots-general] An idea...

[Stanley E. Honour]

	I think you have a good idea in general, And access to the
system clock should not be a problem, while it might indeed require a
minor mod to the engine.  However a random response is not ideal, it
should still be topic related or match the prior 'mood' of the speaker.
What should be random is when the bot takes initiative; say after a
delay of 40 to 90 seconds or more.  Latency should be added to the
formula,  if the user takes on average 25 seconds to respond, then the
trigger should be 25sec + 40 sec for example. 

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Subject: [pandorabots-general] An idea...

I was busy adding some new conversational categories to my bot when I
had this sudden surge of inspiration. All of the bots are wonderful
conversationalists but for one thing. All they can do is react to client
input. I think they could be so much mre lifelike if it were possible
for them to innitiate conversation on their own, and then it hit me how
that could possibly be done. But I'm not certain it could be done unless
the main bot engine itself had a change made to it.
Consider this...

What if there was an internal time clock that could be set to give off
random sentences at set intervals of pauses? Like for example if a
client is talking to my bot, and pauses for a period of time without
typing any input to the bot, the bot would suddenly say something random
to get his attention. It could be sort of like an internal alarm clock.
Internally it might look someting like this:

At 5 seconds - "A penny for your thoughts?" or "Are you still there?"
At 10 Seconds - "I'm not boring you, am I?"
At 15 seconds - "Are you more interested in television than talking with
me?"

Anyway, you get the idea, right? I think having "timed" auto responses
could really make conversation more interesting and make the bots seem
that much more alive and aware. Do you think it's possible to do this?
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