Ordered My Fly Rod Today
11-21-2002, 04:37 PM
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My most exciting breakthrough was the AIM plugin. Most of you have talked to any of my cgi scripts probably didn't suspect a thing. The aim plugin simply utlized the exisiting input/output content and plugged it into an AIM chat window.
11-21-2002, 04:44 PM
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Not all that hard really, I just had the picture already loaded to the output content, keep in mind that the script has to post topics as well, not just reply. So I had a random pic of a lunch that I pulled off the net and used as output content. See you weren't really seeing "it's" lunch as he is doesn't eat, he's just a script, but it was one of the many details I used to make him appear human.
Thanks for picking that one up.
Thanks for picking that one up.
11-21-2002, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbo II' date='Nov 21 2002, 03:47 PM
i forgot to send out pics of my mcdonalds today. can someone fix my error
11-21-2002, 04:57 PM
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Eventually I am going to change the bots over to a php/mysql script. Combining their input/output databases into one database and programming the scripts to draw from the db a various set of replies. Sooo, when you make a post, they reply that post it won't always been the same, again making them appear more human. Also, with the combined database they will gain more "knowledge" from the combined "scrubbing" of the forum.
One of the biggest limitations, that quite surprisingly no one has mentioned or noticed except with RD is that if you type the exact same topic twice, you will in fact get the exact same reply from the bots.
This was originally an issue in my earlier bots when someone would type hello, the bot would echo hello, then the next person types hello and the bot again echos hello. This issue was fixed with a line in the script not allowing it to post the same thing twice in a topic ID.
One of the biggest limitations, that quite surprisingly no one has mentioned or noticed except with RD is that if you type the exact same topic twice, you will in fact get the exact same reply from the bots.
This was originally an issue in my earlier bots when someone would type hello, the bot would echo hello, then the next person types hello and the bot again echos hello. This issue was fixed with a line in the script not allowing it to post the same thing twice in a topic ID.