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Ultra Hal 7.0 / problems

« on: September 18, 2005, 10:34:03 am »

Try running the "Haptek SAPI Config" program located in the Haptek folder under programs in your start menu.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Downloading problems.

« on: September 16, 2005, 05:38:50 am »

You must uninstall any/all previous versions of HAL before installing
the new (full) version.

You might want to temporarily disable or turn off any anti-virus checking programs before installing.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / beginner

« on: September 15, 2005, 09:20:29 pm »

Bill & hairisuns,

The help file is located in the plugins page under Misc plugins
or go to the link below.

http://www.ultrahal.com/files/type.asp?iType=18

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / error of character to hal program

« on: September 15, 2005, 06:44:30 am »

Your .acs character files should be placed with any others in:

C:\WINDOWS\msagent\chars

Should work fine from there.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Many Problems With My New Hal 5.0

« on: September 08, 2005, 07:20:12 pm »

Thanks GB,
I didn't think I was crazy to respond to your message.
Glad your problem is under control now.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Help Installation Error 1324

« on: September 08, 2005, 07:17:58 pm »

Mary,

Before jumping to conclusions, would you be kind enough
to tell us what version of Windows you are using? Your
message about the path to My Documents makes me wonder.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / PDF's and Idiot Savant

« on: September 08, 2005, 06:05:01 am »

I know of no provision that allows HAL to learn from PDF files nor is there any way to load them other than converting to a text file.

There is a general consensus that HAL does not learn as well from a text file as it does from actually chatting with it over time. I have found that HAL will, on occasion, recall something that it learned from a text file but again, this is not as productive as chat interaction.

Though HAL doesn't really fall into the category of "expert systems", I suppose if one were to "weed out" unwanted and unnecessary data from the brain files then feed it conversations based on one particular subject, one could end up with a topic specific HAL.
It's an interesting question and certainly worthy of more experimentation.

The WebUltraHal is sort of designed to know everything about a particular web site / product. This is done by "feeding" Hal with topic specific info.

Go ahead a get HAL, the possibilities are almost endless!

Keep us posted if you persue the savant idea.

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Put some life in your gal

« on: September 08, 2005, 05:54:29 am »

Very nice, Jim.
The breathing is slow and not jerky...quite realistic!!

Good work!

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Many Problems With My New Hal 5.0

« on: September 06, 2005, 05:46:00 pm »

My computer is using the AC-97 integrated sound card
and I've never experienced such an error.

Try to locate your SAPI5.inf file. It is located in:
C:\Windows\inf\sapi5.inf

It should be about 172kb in size.

If/when you find the file, RIGHT CLICK on it and
select INSTALL.

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Lets have Hal "pray" to his/her creator.

« on: September 05, 2005, 04:37:13 pm »

Personally, I don't think there's a need to have
an almost human bot spouting religious dogma...
there's already enough of them on TV!!

Then again, if there's ever a Lord of the Trees,
I'd like to be the "Branch Manager."
[]

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / PMS for HAL(KATRINA)?

« on: August 31, 2005, 09:34:25 pm »

I don't know...I'm afraid that would be getting just too close to realism for a lot of us!! LOL!! Besides, you know we can't feed THIS one chocolate if that happens!!

Seriously, sure, just about anything can be done through clever scripting. Wait 'till Jerry sees your posting, I know he'll come up with some input!

BTW, Welcome to the forum!!

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Speech Technology / Hal reader

« on: August 31, 2005, 09:28:33 pm »

Dexter,

An interesting thought!
Most users can or do adjust the volume either through the
keyboard (if so equipped) or the little speaker icon next
to the clock on the taskbar.

Though there are several ways to adjust or set the sound
or volume levels, here's the one to put the speaker on
the taskbar.

Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices
Under the Sound tab check the show icon on taskbar.

I find that one level usually fits all unless I'm listening to
a favorite song in which case I might crank it up a bit!!

I do like your idea for putting a volume slider on Hal's window!

(Can you hear me now?)

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / Full bodys

« on: August 25, 2005, 07:28:07 pm »

OK, Im not talking about steam operated vehicles here, but with all the "Hot Air" in Washington, you'd think they would have come up with a vehicle (besides our government)to run on it![]

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / 9 to 5

« on: August 23, 2005, 05:24:53 am »

You can try the FileCopy command which basically copies a file from one location to another.

FileCopy "c:UltraHalAsst\newfile.xxx" "c:UltraHalAsstoldfile.xxx" or to another location.

It's not always advisable to use the command due to the various ways people might locate or name their HAL on their Hard Drive like "C:HalAsst...." or "c:AIProgramsUltraHal..." you get the idea.

Good luck with your code!

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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / 9 to 5

« on: August 22, 2005, 09:09:13 pm »

I think you could set a random timer to select a red, blue, gray, tan suit on it's own but the time of day feature you've implemented is going to be your undoing due to , as you mentioned, the polling after every response.

Perhaps an initial start with the random feature > Hal's wardrobe is choosen. After that then you might be able to give Hal a command to "Change to tan suit" or "Change to casual clothes"

Your time of day routine will work but you'll be a victim of your own programming. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Good luck!