[pandorabots-general] An idea...

[Norman Wilson]

Like Stanley said earlier, I guess I'm going to have to learn some 
programming.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "A. Kootstra" <anne at aiml.info>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] An idea...


> This is a discussion that spans several user interfaces: Internet Explorer 
> (i.e. DHTML) and IRC. Each of these will have to deal SEPERATELY with the 
> dialogue initiation issue. This because AIML does not support this 
> feature. It is therefore up to  the user interface layer to keep track of 
> the time inbetween the user's responses.
>
> If the user uses a browser to chat with your bot then I would program some 
> javascript in the (D)HTML template to send a single response back using 
> the regular HTML Form. This response will then be processes by AIML and 
> according to iet's state will create  a user specific reply. This is afar 
> better than storing standard replies in Javascript.
>
> The Solution for IRC can be similar to the one mentioned above for the 
> browser but the technique for semding the 'pulse' to AIML to compile a 
> reply to 'stimulate' the response will be different. How depends on how 
> the AIML interpretation engine interfaces with the users on IRC. The 
> interface layer will need to track the users's activity in a chatroom or 
> one to one chat and when the user is taking long to respond to send a 
> pulse to the interpretation engine.
>
> This is something that will be a challenge.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anne
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
> Van: "Norman Wilson" <normwilson at sbcglobal.net>
> Aan: pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com
> Verzonden: 13-2-07 19:13
> Onderwerp: Re: [pandorabots-general] An idea...
>
> I changed mine in the training dialogue, program the remark from the 
> human,
> the the bot's response.
> You can teach it to recognize individual people and call them by 
> nicknames,
> just make sure you go back the the bot page and republish the bot
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "GT40" <gt40 at tiscali.fr>
> To: <pandorabots-general at list.pandorabots.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 11:46 AM
> Subject: Re: [pandorabots-general] An idea...
>
>
>>
>> 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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