[pandorabots-general] An idea...

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The "little" problem of my script is that it is always executed: the bot
always says the programmed sentences, independently of the AIML dialogue (if
exist). As you can see, I am not a programmer too!



Norman Wilson-3 wrote:
> 
> 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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