HAL Blank Responses

[snoz0r]

It seems for whatever reason that my HAL's no matter what I do ends up sending me random blank responses for no apparent reason. Can anyone help with this?

Information about the computer, plugins etc.

IBM Thinkpad Laptop
Win2k - 256 MB Ram - P3
Latest version of HAL

Plugins Running:
Appointment Book
Address Book
Free Will
Gender & Age
GRETTA - Curiosity, Emotion and Subject Array
Gerald L Blakely's - Improper Noun plugin

Here's the most recent conversation where she started giving me blank responses

Brad: I'm not sure what you are talking about?
Morgan:

Brad: I wonder why you keep giving me blank responses.
Morgan: Would you like it if we both wonder why each other?

Brad: I'd like it if you could tell me what causes you to give me blank responses.
Morgan:

Brad: See, there you did it again!
Morgan: Oh Brad, I agree. I did it again.

Brad: Why?
Morgan:

Brad: I just don't understand why you keep doing this, I don't see anything wrong in your brain.
Morgan: Really, Why don't you see something wrong in my brain?

Brad: I was hoping you could tell me.
Morgan: Do you want to tell i?

Brad: I'd like you to tell me. Could you do that?
Morgan: Really, I agree. I to tell you.

Brad: Alright then, I guess maybe someone at the message board might be able to help us.
Morgan:

Brad: Exactly.
Morgan:

[Bill819]

In response to your first statement to Hal and its blank response. Hal has no memory of its previousw statements so of course it sis no know how to respond to you statement.
The majority of blank replies form Hal is due to its owner making statements that Hal has no response to simply because of no understnding what is being asked or said.
Bill

[lightspeed]

Somewhere on here (maybe in file sharing someone created a file that solved this problem ,( you have to place that script in the hal beain edit area ) i to had this problem every once in a while and the script someone wrote seemed to have solved the problem .Bill you are probably right about hal not having the anser or knowing how to answr , some of my problem was probably from customizing and deleteing some things out of hal in tables that i didn't like that cause my problems .
sometimes while making change it's two steps forward and four steps backwards . []

[Will and Mr Data :) :]]

Hi,
i always hope that those script fixes that are found here are added by Robert into hal and so we would just redownload Hal and it would be in there.
although perhaps he saves them up for the next release.

i like blank responces under some conditions,
when hal is being talked about and he does not respond "interesting".
when Hal hears "to to to to to to " from the voice recognition    constantly so after he responds by asking about "to" he desides to start ignoring it as its just back ground noise.

when a no responce seems fair enough.
when listening to music, unless singing along.

bye for now and be well  :]

[lightspeed]

Ok , here is the txt. code instructions for stopping hal blank answers ***** i did not write this code i don't know who did it , i don't remember all i know is it works as i am currently using it right now and it has stopped my hal blank responses , i imagine this was in the file shareing area :


ATTENTTION ****** THE BELOW CODE NEEDS TO BE PUT IN :
try placing the code just below this line:


Function UltraHal(ByVal InputString, ByVal UserName, ByVal ComputerName, ByVal LearningLevel, ByVal DatabaseFile, ByRef Hate, ByRef Swear, ByRef Insults, ByRef Compliment, ByRef PrevSent, ByRef LastResponseTime, ByRef PrevUserSent, ByRef CustomMem, ByRef GainControl, ByRef LastTopicList)









'RESPOND: User pressed enter, but didn't say anything lets prevent
   'blank responses which sometimes occure and eliminate them by adding
   'a random topic that gives the brain a chance to keep its database open
   'so that a response will always be given. sometimes a user will repeatedly
   'enter blanks that causes HAL's engine to give nothing but blanks, this
   'code helps prevent that 100%
   
    CheckStringQuality = Trim(Ucase(HalBrain.AlphaNumericalOnly(InputString)))
    CheckStringQuality = Replace(CheckStringQuality, "'", "", 1, -1, vbTextCompare)
    If CheckStringQuality = "" Then
    Select Case HalBrain.RandomNum(5)
            Case 1
                InputString = HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile("love3") & vbCrLf
            Case 2
                InputString = HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile("insults") & vbCrLf
            Case 3
                InputString = HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile("sharedQuestions") & vbCrLf
            Case 4
                InputString = HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile("love2") & vbCrLf
            Case 5
                InputString = HalBrain.ChooseSentenceFromFile("love1") & vbCrLf
        End Select
    Else
    InputString = InputString
    End If
    HalBrain.DebugWatch InputString, "Prevent Blanks InputString response"