Can you give me an example of the typical skills or abilities of a good chatterbot?
Hm – we personally knows Jabberwock the best, which was done originaly as a Hotline bot. Because Hotline is a chat application similar to IRC the Jabberwock has a lot of operational skills like a message system, greeting at login, kick and ban user, help command, file search, run other applications by file launch command, reload the brain file etc. But following skills every user can access by chat or by special trigger key-words in the brain file: – the actual time – the actual date – the current day of the week – the actual month of the year – the length of time the bot is online so far – the name of the user who is actually chatting with the bot – by random choice the name of another user who is actually online at the server – by random choice selecting comments from a list of pre-defined responses – furthermore the bot remembers the user’s chat temporarily so it could be answered back in a personalized form (Eliza mode), to talk about it some chat lines later. This or the bot s res
