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« on: August 05, 2003, 01:18:34 pm »
Hi,
I am thinking about how Hal could be made more female-friendly...
I have a lot of top-level ideas including additional "girl-talk" topics, gender-specific compliments, female-friendly jokes, question/answer sequences (does my bum look big in this?) etc
I would appreciate any ideas / technical support in how to develop the following:
- improving Hals re-use of user information (eg. remembering her favourite colour, star sign, how many shoes she has etc)
- getting Hal to identify user's gender (initially by using a list of common male/female names, supported by some tactful questioning)
- allowing the user to assign a gender role to Hal (male/female/neuter: a male Hal would talk to a female user differently than a female Hally...)
- looking at what roles Hal could perform for female users eg. girl-friend, confidante, coach, sympathetic ear, relationship counsellor (God knows I need one of those!)
What else? If anyone has other ideas I could consider, please post or email me: caroleann150@hotmail.com.
Cheers!
Carole
PS. If any women (or men) are offended by my light-hearted approach to girlifying Hal, please don't take it too seriously, I just thought it would be nice to have a bot around who doesn't wiggle its bum...and who can discuss chocolate in a meaningful way...[^]