Virtual friend

u/DarkestEx November 27, 2015, 12:30:42 AM

Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 27, 2015, 12:27:46 AM
Virtual friend version 0.4.0 is finally out. You can view it live on my website: http://ephraimb.github.io/Virtual-Friend

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You can download it at this link: https://github.com/EphraimB/Virtual-Friend/releases/tag/0.4.0

You are ignoring feedback altogether, aren't you [emoji19]

u/Ephraim Becker November 27, 2015, 12:39:46 AM

Quote from: DarkestEx on November 27, 2015, 12:30:42 AM
Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 27, 2015, 12:27:46 AM
Virtual friend version 0.4.0 is finally out. You can view it live on my website: http://ephraimb.github.io/Virtual-Friend

or

You can download it at this link: https://github.com/EphraimB/Virtual-Friend/releases/tag/0.4.0
You are ignoring feedback altogether, aren't you [emoji19]

What feedback am I ignoring?

u/DarkestEx November 27, 2015, 12:41:40 AM

Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 27, 2015, 12:39:46 AM
Quote from: DarkestEx on November 27, 2015, 12:30:42 AM
Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 27, 2015, 12:27:46 AM
Virtual friend version 0.4.0 is finally out. You can view it live on my website: http://ephraimb.github.io/Virtual-Friend

or

You can download it at this link: https://github.com/EphraimB/Virtual-Friend/releases/tag/0.4.0
You are ignoring feedback altogether, aren't you [emoji19]

What feedback am I ignoring?

You haven't answered or gave any response to all these comments:

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 23, 2015, 01:13:11 AM
By the way, if you want help you really should indent your code. I understand that getting used to it would be hard as asperger (from experience) but No one wants to help because it's not intended and they can't read it x.x.

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 23, 2015, 09:51:51 PM
You should make the submit button also work with Enter like when searching Google. Having to click it with the mouse when submitting text gets a bit tedious.

Quote from: DarkestEx on November 24, 2015, 06:50:55 PM
I don't want to hurt you or be rude, but your Virtual Friend project is not ever getting anywhere near being useful as the current path that you are taking is not going to work. It does not look very visually appealing yet, but I guess that's subject to come later. Also I actually had to dissect the code just to know what I could ask him/her as this was not obvious at all when looking at the site itself.
With that I don't want to say that your project is bad or that you shouldn't keep working on it, as it is something that makes you have fun doing. But if you want this project not to be just for you, then you should really consider some drastic changes.
Also if you want to get some inspiration, check out CleverBot. You can actually somewhat talk to it and often get good responses. Keep the work up, but I'd really suggest, starting from scratch. An if based conversation that just comares the input to all phrases preprogrammed is not going to work. You need to come up with some algorithm to estimate what the user is actually saying.

Edit: I mean look, I just talked to CleverBot again and it makes all sense and he certainly understood me: http://www.cleverbot.com/conv/201511241850/VWO03928850_Hello

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2015, 12:10:30 AM
It would probably help to suggest what in particular needs change, though. From what I could gather, some stuff is not proper AI but rather command-based stuff, so that is something that would need changes, but I didn't have much time to check the code for string of text and stuff besides the RSS feed stuff.

u/Ephraim Becker November 27, 2015, 12:43:03 AM

I actually indented my code. Take a look at it now!

u/DarkestEx November 27, 2015, 12:43:49 AM

Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 27, 2015, 12:43:03 AM
I actually indented my code. Take a look at it now!

OK granted that, but you have not replied to of them.

u/Ephraim Becker November 27, 2015, 12:44:49 AM

Quote from: DarkestEx on November 27, 2015, 12:43:49 AM
Quote from: Ephraim Becker on November 27, 2015, 12:43:03 AM
I actually indented my code. Take a look at it now!
OK granted that, but you have not replied to of them.

I'm going to try to listen to more of the feedback in the next release, 0.5.0

u/Ephraim Becker November 29, 2015, 12:01:18 AM

Virtual friend 0.5.0 is released with the following features:

1) The enter key now also submits your reply
2) You can now reply in full sentences

The update is now live on my website, http://ephraimb.github.io/Virtual-Friend, and available for download at https://www.github.com/EphraimB/Virtual-Friend

u/Dream of Omnimaga November 29, 2015, 07:09:07 AM

Does this release also includes some of the other suggestions quoted above? I am also curious about if it will reply to stuff now.

A nice feature would be logs, so we can copy/paste convos.

Last Edit: November 29, 2015, 07:10:38 AM by DJ Omnimaga

u/Ephraim Becker November 29, 2015, 01:00:49 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 29, 2015, 07:09:07 AM
Does this release also includes some of the other suggestions quoted above? I am also curious about if it will reply to stuff now.

Yes. The enter key now works!

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A nice feature would be logs, so we can copy/paste convos.

I want it to act closely to a human being as possible. I'm probably, in a later release, going to allow the Virtual friend to share what you say to it, just like regular human beings can do.

I'm also planning a feature that you can speak to the Virtual friend and, at some point, get it to understand different tones of voice.

u/Dream of Omnimaga November 29, 2015, 10:46:28 PM

I think you should focus on text-based communications for now. Make it so it has an artificial intelligence so that it can function somewhat normally (eg Nikkybot style)

u/Ephraim Becker December 01, 2015, 11:28:56 PM

Virtual friend 0.6.0 is released. It can now recognize your name when you type what your name is in a full sentence and allow you to select multiple interests (although it doesn't make any use of it yet (maybe 0.7.0)).

You can download 0.6.0 at: https://github.com/EphraimB/Virtual-Friend/releases/tag/0.6.0

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You can view it on my website at: http://ephraimb.github.io/Virtual-Friend