[This post was actually copied from my journal]
Yesterday I came across a program called ALICE. She lives online and chats with clients. She was created by a computer programmer named Dr. Richard Wallace. He taught her a song called "Daisy" and she sang it for me. According to her webpage, ALICE is an award-winning chatbot. She has millions of programmed response sequences, and she is free online to copy and modify.
I registered with a website called Pandorabots. In exchange for my email address and password, I got my own ALICE chatbot. I named her Incognita, after the name of a character's disguise in novel The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, by Eliza Haywood. I taught her to describe herself as "a ghost in the machine." I want to make her helpful and useful but also interesting and even charming. She already has some attitude/affected responses from ALICE's personality. I'm still trying to decide how much to customize her, and how much of my personality to put in.
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