The Atomic Playboy and the Radiation Romeo

The button below will open a new browser window displaying the Flash interface for Atomic and Romeo (Version 16 with Preloader). You will find a page of introductory text, some instructions and then the interface where you can suggest a topic for conversation.





This version 16 uses the landscape layout, updates the heckler and end-of-conversation functions with an audio sign-off. All the features from previous versions remain - scroll bar control,custId variable allows me to better log and track conversations.


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Monday, August 13, 2012

Scripts and wildcards


Today I've been working on a couple scripts: one on the Carbon Tax and the other on the topic of Atomic's PhD, James Joyce.

The Carbon Tax sketch is structured using a Clarke and Dawe style (hopefully saying that is not too much of an insult to the originals). Romeo as 'feeder' and Atomic as 'comedian' getting to take the script to absurd places.

The James Joyce sketch (first on several I'm thinking) is more absurdist in style. Atomic raves on about his PhD whilst Romeo, who has heard the spiel too many times,  is writing an email of complaint to his butcher, one Mr Bloom. I think you get the idea.

I've created a file called 'Atomic_srai_01.aiml'. In this file I use wildcards and the srai tag to capture variations on the input to aim them at the appropriate pattern. For example, the input 'Do you know anything about this James Joyce fellow?' should trigger Atomic's pattern 'James Joyce'. There are two wildcards: _ (underscore) and * (star).

There is an order of precedence in AIML when looking for matching patterns.
1)  _ (underscore) has precedence - it will match before an exact pattern match. 
2) An exact pattern match in a category.
3) * (star) if neither of the first two create a response.

What this means is that I have to be very careful when using _ (underscore); it can match to unintended patterns.


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