Nina Improvements

Thanks to those of you who’ve helped out testing Nina… I can imagine it’s a little frustrating at times. Just a couple of quick points – firstly, I’m rapidly expanding the vocab based on looking at the things she doesn’t understand, so it is actually very useful. Secondly I noticed that some of the pattern matching is case sensitive… this probably gives the impression that she’s way more stupid than she actually is (if you’re using unexpected case).

I think I should also add a little more variety for the confused message, as it tends to come up quite a bit right now. Also to reiterate, she’s never going to be all that clever – I just wanted her to have some kind of basic conversational skill.

Anyhow, no time to do much with her right now, but I’ll post when she gets more intelligent. Watch this space.

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November 6, 2006 @ 22:40

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  1. Pat says:
    Hello
    Nina says:
    Sorry Pat, didn’t quite get what you mean
    Nina says:
    I’m a little slow today… what was that?

    She is as dumb as a dumbass from Dumbsville, Tenessee. If she was an slower she wold be backwards, oh wait a sec she is backwards :-)

    Comment by Pat Long, November 6, 2006 @ 11:34 pm

  2. >> Secondly I noticed that some of the pattern matching is case sensitive… this probably gives the impression that she’s way more stupid than she actually is.

    I rest my case.

    Comment by Oli, November 7, 2006 @ 8:23 am

  3. so when you said “some” of the pattern matching was case sensitive you meant all of it?

    Comment by pat, November 7, 2006 @ 9:11 am

  4. Oh… NINArobot… For some reason I misread it and added a contact to NINJArobot. That would explain why I was never accepted as a contact.

    Ninjarobot would have been better, I think! And you could have got away with it being a bit thick by just returning random “ninja-type” noises when you didn’t understand a message. Anyway, I’ll give Nina a go!

    Comment by Mike, November 7, 2006 @ 10:00 am

  5. Best to stick to lowercase chat until I fix the case sensitivity in pattern matching. Enjoy your new, dumb, automated chat-bot.

    Comment by Oli, November 7, 2006 @ 11:21 am

  6. I need a new, smart, automated chat-bot because I could never hold a conversation with a real person for that long

    Comment by pat, November 7, 2006 @ 4:35 pm

  7. You seriously created a robot called Nina??!

    How uber cool!

    Maria

    Comment by Maria, November 13, 2006 @ 12:57 pm

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