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This is just a very quick post to announce that I have updated Kon Offline to version 1.1.1 on 1/1/11. :)

There’s only one change in this version and that’s an updated LB Brain that I’m testing out. The biggest change is that when constructing sentences it can go look backwards as well as forwards through the brain files. Previous versions of the LB Brain only looked forward. What’s the difference? Consider this:

“empty as your soul!”

vs

“Your words are as empty as your soul!”

In the past the first line is what Kon would spit out. Now it will try to spit out the second line by going backwards and looking to see what “empty as your soul” is connected to. Sometimes it will mix things up and create hilariously weird lines. Sometimes it’ll be just right.

Anyway, this is long enough. Go download, test and let me know if you like the changes.

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I’ve been busy working on new versions of Kaiou and Kon.

Kaiou 7.4 will be one of the biggest updates to the bot in a very long time and will introduce three completely new skills, one skill that has been revamped completely, the ability to sell unwanted equipment for zeni, a new tech status type, new and updated jobs, and at least ten error fixes. There might be more in the final release so please stay tuned for that!

As for Kon, well it turns out that Twitter decided to axe their basic authentication. In short it means that the current public release of Kon was unable to connect to Twitter any more. I’ve managed to partially fix this in the version I’m working on, but I’m still having a bit of trouble with the !twitter command to display the current tweet. Hopefully I can get a workaround soon so the update can be released.

Kaiou should be released sometime next week. Kon is still up in the air. But in any case, please look forward to them both. :)

In an effort to try and improve the offline version of Kon, I’ve updated to a new version!

This version fixes a minor lag issue that was appearing when text was entered to when it actually appeared in the chat box. This version also re-introduces the conversation logger (it’s on by default) as well as a config file to save your options (including your nickname now). There’s also some very few basic colors to give it more of an appearance of an actual IM program.

So please check it out and enjoy. As always, if you find any bugs or errors please let me know about them and I will try to fix them for the next version.

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I sat down and decided to try and hammer out a better version of Kon Offline and I’m almost done with it. So far I have eliminated the lag that was present when you typed and hit enter to when it appeared in the chat box, added some basic colors for the chat window (to make it look more like an old-school IM program), added a logger so that conversations can be logged, and added a config file so that various settings can be saved.

This version will be uploaded in a few days after I do some more testing to ensure everything is working right. Until then, be patient. :)

Hey everyone!

I know there’s a bunch of people out there who have taken interest in my C# Chatterbot, known as Kon. And I know that not everyone is able to hop on IRC and go chat with him. Watching it post on twitter is interesting at first but sometimes you wish you could just interact with it. Well, today I have the solution for you!
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This version is just a version to prove I’m still alive and that the project isn’t 100% dead! With that said, it should be obvious that this is not a very big update. In fact, it only does two things.

* I fixed a very minor mistake in which the LB Brain wasn’t actually searching the entire sentence for the key word like it was supposed to.

* I made it so Kon can now search for two key words to create his response with. For example, if you type Kon: Count Dracula, it will try to find both “Count” and “Dracula” in his brain together to create a response. This is not going to work as good as it sounds though. Because if the words “count” and “dracula” are not very close to each other, i.e. on the same line, in the brain it will fail. But for two words that actually belong together and are generally next to each other, it will help a little bit.

And with that said.. that’s it for now. Next version, whenever I get around to it, I need to try and clean up the code a bit as it’s getting way out of hand and is pretty sloppy.

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This is probably the coolest Tweet I’ve seen so far regarding Kubo.

Kubo Tite said: コーーーーーン！！なんだこれ！めちゃくちゃかわいいな！！ RT: http://twitpic.com/1lai92

“Koooooooooooooon!! I can really say that this is insanely cute!!” (or you might read it as “Koooooooon! What’s this? So cute it’s absurd!”)

Either way you read it, it seems that Kubo really likes it. I totally agree. It’s pretty awesome.

This is a pretty small version of Kon compared to some of the previous versions.

This version fixes an error in the LB Brain Utility that I discovered after the last version’s release.  It also improves Kon’s ability to filter URLs out of sentences before adding them to his brain as well as slightly improving Kon’s grammer filter.  I also tried to improve Kon’s ability to combine sentences so that it will hopefully not repeat the same line twice, as in previous versions.

Finally, Kon can now respond to two CTCP commands: PING and VERSION.

As always, enjoy!

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Sorry that it took so long for this release. Honestly I was just waiting and testing it to make sure that the biggest part of this release was working correctly. It is, and has been, so I think it’s time to release it.

This version fixes the reconnect problem that I’ve been struggling with for the better part of a year now. With this finally fixed, if the bot pings out or gets disconnected without being shut completely off, it will attempt to reconnect. Upon connecting successfully, it’ll reset the reconnect attempts to 0 (as in most IRC clients).

It also added the ability for Kon to filter out repeat starting sentences but keep the rest of the sentence. For example, if the bot sees “I am in love with ” and “I am in hate with” it will only keep one copy of “I am in” but keep both “hate with” and “love with.” The reason for this is to try and reduce the size of the brain files and to try and keep repeats out.

There’s a few other small improvements to this version, but nothing really groundbreaking or major. If you want to see the rest, continue past the jump and read the changelog. If not, enjoy!

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I have finally fixed the reconnect issue that Kon has been having since day 1.  I’ll be uploading the source and binaries soon, after I do a few more things to it.

It makes me so happy to have finally fixed this issue. :)