LOL
Make sure it can fool the perfect bot test. "Hey Nick, what is 2+2?"
My bot will answer: 4. It is - amongst other things - also capable of telling the time and date, sending pictures of itself on request and to recognize chatters by sexe. You can ask him in various ways ("how much is .." "please calculate ...", "do you have a picture", "can you send a picture") and answers are choosen randomly, like "i think 4", "4 it is", "ehm ... 4!" etcetera.
Also, bots don't make mistakes but people do! Make sure you toss in the occasional typo. Its best to make a list of letters to typo. For instance, common typos for F would be D, G, C, V, E, and W. Those are the letters next to D on the keyboard.
Also, switching letters in words is another common typo. Instead of "Table" you'd do something like "Talbe". Some mistales are more common than others
I've found that by adding these typos to words greatly increases the chance of fooling some one.
It does too and even corrects himselves (randomly, not every time). It also misses a letter sometimes.
Another feature is that he delays his answer according to the length of the sentence he has to place in the channel. Some people really believe somebody is typing on a keyboard.
Now, it looks like I present this as THE perfect AI bot for mirc, but it isn't. By far it isn't! The trick is that most chat conversations are about the same subjects, namely: nothing. This makes it easy to get a conversation going. Features like delay, typo's and knowing how to calculate gives the bot a human face, which fools average chatters. Can you imagine that some people ask whether Berend-Botje is male or female (Berend is a Dutch name for boys only) ?? Berend will answer something like: were did you get your biology lessons? "At school" is the most given answer .....
Chatting is about nothing at all :p
