pgbot

Seems to be the trendy thing to do these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431943 It's cool I guess. I'd be a hypocrite I guess, to suggest otherwise given that I also did a "pgbot" thing[1] a long time ago. But somehow these newer things feel different. I think what I did was very obviously a joke, especially since it only had like 7 responses it could generate. But even then I felt a little iffy about publishing the code, and I always figured if pg contacted me and said "take this shit down" I'd do so immediately. And I never instantiated it as a running service, so anybody who wanted to play with it had to deal with setting it up to run somewhere (something I doubt anyone has ever done). Something like this though, that's based on his entire corpus of essays and can make a semi-plausible attempt to replicate him as a publicl

AIML was great. I once took a stab[1] at creating an AI Paul Graham using AIML. It more more of an amusement than anything serious, but still, messing around with AIML was cool. [1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

It's delightful to see how far technology has come since I took a stab at doing something like this 14 years ago[1]. :-) [1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

Heh. This reminds me, way back like 11 years ago I started trying to reimplement pg as a bot using AIML. It was really just a joke so I didn't go very far with it, but if anybody's interested... https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

2) Respectfully, pg, why are you bothering with this, and more with all the other "how to hack YC", "why we got past YC", "why we failed YC" blog posts? I'm surprised you don't have a bot that first-posts the following comment to every such submission: Heh... I'm sorry, but I can't help but be slightly amused by the idea of a "pgbot". So much so that I started on capturing some "pg'isms" in AIML a while back. https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot I'd love to play with this more, but I have to much respect for pg to do it. Any more and I'm afraid it would go from "cute, maybe amusing diversion" to the realm of actually offensive. What might be fun though, would be to compile some stock expressions, advice, quips, etc. from a whole range of well known personalities in the startup & tech world, and create a bot that combines them all. You co

previously : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2598026 https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

I am the only real user here. The rest of what you see are all bots I control, or figments of my imagination. Even pg is a bot, see: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

Given the nature of this conversation, I'll throw in a gratuitous plug for "pgbot" a half-baked "AIML implementation of pg" that I cooked up one night in response to something somebody said here (or on #startups). https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot It might be fun to get some other people to fork that and start making it "smarter."

It's not finished, but here's a (very) rough first cut: http://pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=d7e93f386e34109d EDIT: And here's the AIML file on Github if anybody wants to play. Pandorabots.com is a nice place to host these things for playing around... https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot -- And since we're talking chat-bots anyway, here's some stuff for people who might find this sort of thing interesting: http://pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/home http://www.alicebot.org/documentation/ http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/pics/wallaceaimltutorial.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML http://alicebot.blogspot.com/