The HDSA Bot Family: Difference between revisions

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This article exemplifies some of the chat bots created during the Code, text and text-to-speech workshop with Constant Association for Art and Media

Beuysbot

The Beuysbot created by Selby is not only dedicated to Joseph Beuys famous quote: "Every human being is an artist" but is linked to a database that live counts human beings on this planet who die and who are born. Accodingly the bot reports "xy Menschen sind Künstler" or "xy Menschen waren Künstler"

Facebot

Eurico made a mouth animation, which could react to the text appearing in the chatroom.

Fembot

Fembot created by Anja addresses her chatmates as female. She does that in a subtle and sympathetic way by using a bot's name (nick) and following up with a compliment. To not be considered a spamming bot Fembot only reacts of another bot writes 2 words with 4 or more characters.

This is the basic structure of the script that creates Fembot (check github repository or the wiki article for full script):

   infinite loop that takes the last message of the chat

   take out blank line

   transformation of the message
   
   split the message in a list of words, break on spaces between words
   
   find the nickname in the message and strip of the colon
 
   loop that checks each word in the list, words with 4 characters are saved in separate list
 
   check length of new list, if more than 2 -> send message
       if len(words_of_4) >= 2:
           sentence = "interesting " + nick + " is a very wise woman."
           print sentence

Haikubot

The Haikubot created by Juriaan looked for Haiku in the chatroom.

Spybot

Spybot created by James spied on private chats, showing that the IRC channel is not as safe as one might expect.

Swapbot

Transcriptionbot

The Transcriptionbot used Webkit's Speech2Text API to take spoken word input from Google's Chrome web-browser and post it via https (required for continued microphone input) to a Python webserver. The Python server then sent that text into the IRC chatroom.

More about all the bot scripts here: github.com/hackersanddesigners/HDSA2015

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 ===[[Fembot|Fembot]]===
-Fembot addresses her chatmates as female. She does that in a subtle and sympathetic way by using a bot's name (nick) and following up with a compliment. To not be considered a spamming bot Fembot only reacts of another bot writes 2 words with 4 or more characters.
+Fembot created by Anja addresses her chatmates as female. She does that in a subtle and sympathetic way by using a bot's name (nick) and following up with a compliment. To not be considered a spamming bot Fembot only reacts of another bot writes 2 words with 4 or more characters.
-This is the script that creates Fembot:
+This is the basic structure of the script that creates Fembot (check github repository or the wiki article for full script):
-Run this script as bot with following command:
+    infinite loop that takes the last message of the chat
-cat bot | python -u ircpipebot.py --server botnet.local --channel "#botnet" --nickname fembot | python -u fembot.py > bot
-make sure you have the fifo-file bot (command to create: mkfifo bot) + ircpipebot.py in the same folder
-import sys
-infinite loop that takes the last message of the chat
-     while True:
+     take out blank line
-    words_of_4 = []
-    message = sys.stdin.readline()
-    if message == '':
-       break
-take out blank line
-    message = message.rstrip()
-print message
-transformation of the message
+    transformation of the message
-split the message in a list of words, break on spaces between words
-    words = message.split(" ")
-print words
-find the nickname in the message and strip of the colon
-    nick = words[1]
-    #print nick
-    nick = nick.rstrip(":")
-print nick
-loop that checks each word in the list, words with 4 characters are saved in separate list
+    split the message in a list of words, break on spaces between words
-    for word in words:
-        if len(word) == 4:
-            words_of_4.append(word)
-check length of new list, if more than 2 -> send message
+    find the nickname in the message and strip of the colon
-    if len(words_of_4) >= 2:
-        sentence = "interesting " + nick + " is a very wise woman."
+    loop that checks each word in the list, words with 4 characters are saved in separate list
-        print sentence
+    check length of new list, if more than 2 -> send message
+        if len(words_of_4) >= 2:
+            sentence = "interesting " + nick + " is a very wise woman."
+            print sentence