[pandorabots-general] An idea...

[Norman Wilson]

One question about this. I am not a programmer, just a curious person.
I use my bot in an IRC channel as a conversation stimulator.
Question:
If the bot is talking to one person "one", then someone else "two" enters 
the conversation, and one goes AFK, if two continues, would the bot then 
attempt to call One back into the conversation, or would the bot be content 
with two?

Original Message ----- 
From: "ceki kela" <jbx028 at hotmail.com>
To: <pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] An idea...


> Hi,
> This is something that you have to implements into your third application
> and not into AIML.
> Every n seconds, your program will have to call a <category>.
>
> Johnny
>
>
>>From: Dekadens <dekadens at gmail.com>
>>Reply-To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
>>To: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
>>Subject: [pandorabots-general] An idea...
>>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:30:03 -0500
>>
>>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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