[pandorabots-general] An idea...

[Brian Hoecht]

Gary,

Do you have a list of the non-standard AIML tags you've
implemented in the Program N AIML Interpreter?

Sounds like it might be a good list to work off of + see if we
can begin to advance the AIML standards again.

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Hi Dekadens,

In Program N at www.AIMLpad.com there is a non-standard tag <sec>
which does
what you are describing, but at a random interval between 8 and
20 seconds.
There is also the feature to determine a long pause where the bot
can fire
off a category to say things like "Are you still there?"  There
is also a
very short pause that is used with speech-to-text engines to
automatically
take the text as an input (when using it, pressing the enter key
is not
needed to trigger a response.)

Here is an excerpt from one of the on-line tutorials:

"Mr. Bikker also gave us <sec> that is something only for the
notepad side
of things.  What it does is produce a second response a short
time after the
main reply.  It creates a sense of impatience and eagerness.  The
notepad
takes into account you might be already answering.  It displays
at the last
reply, but returns immediately to where you are entering text.
This feature
creates a disarming effect to cement the illusion of a real
personality.
BTW, the <sec> can be nested using <srai> so the second reply
triggers a
third, and so on, thoroughly frustrating the seeker."

Program N can do these things because it is a stand-alone AIML
interpreter
basically designed to be an AIML editor.  It can help in creating
content
for Pandorabots although it misses on some pandorabots extensions
like for
<date> and <eval> and <learn>, etc.  Also it has a few "extras"
that
pandorabots does not.

Is this something like what you are proposing?  I think it is a
great idea!

FYI,
  - Gary Dubuque, still playing with computer generated music to
fill the
pauses/silence in a chat

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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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