Crafting Chatter 0.1a - 05/21/07

[adakos]

Chatter 2.0

I talked to Dontdoit for a while about my old random chatter program, but we both agreed it was too botlike, so he showed me this little trick.
Anyone remember ELIZA/ALICE the therapist bot? Well this is the Vanguard Version! Follow the directions below:

Feedback here:
http://www.isxgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=817
Instructions:

Get j-alice:
[URL="http://j-alice.sourceforge.net/download.htm"]http://j-alice.sourceforge.net/download.htm[/URL]

Get an IRC server (if you don't want to use a public server - HIGHLY recommended):
[URL="http://ircd.bircd.org/"]http://ircd.bircd.org/[/URL]

Set up your IRC server.
Set up j-alice to join your IRC server

IS, ISXVG, ISXIRC are all required...

Go into IRCcontrol and set up the variables at the top of the script.

Then run irccontrol script.
Then run ircrelay.

This currently will do 3 things for you:

1) IRCControl will be able to control IS, VG, etc from IRC.
   a) to give an IS command in any channel your bot is in type "<cmd dothiscmd>" without quotes.
   b) to give a VG command in any channel your bot is in type "vg <dothiscmd>" without quotes.
      *Both <dothiscmd> need to be real IS or VG commands.
2) IrcRelay will relay any and all text coming into your VG client into IRC channels.  Currently it sends this text to 4 channels.
3) If you get a TELL in game, the bot WILL respond with the text alice sends back.

If you've done everything right, this works pretty smoothly.

Things To work on:
1) I need to do a bit of work on this, but with school there may not be updates for a while.
2) make sure your alice bot is in irc by sending a /msg to her.  If she responds, she's ready.
3) edit the irccontrol script to have the alice response take longer depending on the length of the message.  Shouldn't be too hard to do this.
4) Modify Alice's repsonses.