Making an interactive net bot?

Question

Hi,
I'm making a bot that can pretty much think for itself on the internet using random number functions. What functions should I allow the bot to do/interact with the user?

meh you're not getting it.. for example if the generate gets the number two then with this code it would show something

if ($number == '1')
{
print 'Something';
}
else if ($number =='2')
{
print 'Something else';
}
else
{
// The number was three
print 'Last thing';
}

Answer 1

I hope you have an idea of what you're getting yourself into because if you want it to be passable enough for people to go see it more than once, it will require a LOT of work.

The first thing I could suggest is to recognize the person chatting with the bot, so it can record conversations and acquire knowledge which could be useful in future conversations.

It would also be nice if it could lookup information in the dictionary, give the horoscope, play tic-tac-toe.

It could be even better if it could support depressive people for example. :)

Note: I've made a full technical design for such a system and the project plan would require 5 years of work full time to be fully operational.

Answer 2

That sounds like a scatterbrain bot. Random numbers? Reminds my of a bipolar version of the paperclip from MS Word.