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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Thoughts and ideas on new plugins.

« on: March 09, 2008, 07:59:44 pm »

Excuse my ignorance on the subject, I'm only a few days new to Hal,
and so the limitations are still unknown to me.

I've noticed that a lot of people here are very skilled with developing new plugins, so I thought i'd share a few ideas i've had on potential ideas.

Firstly I really like the idea of the lonliness plugin, it's nice to have Hal initiate contact with you - however i've found that when hal initiates contact, that the voice is not activated, just a text prompt - Is this normal? if so, it would be much better for Hal to propmt conversation verbally.

Also, anyone here know if it is possible to write a plugin that would
create a random time delay between you talking to Hal and him/her
replying? There seems something unnatural about a virtually imediate response... a random few second delay (which was different each time)
would make the interaction seem a lot more "human"

With the above idea in mind, perhaps you could advance this a little, and have Hal occasionally not offer a direct response immediatly, but instead say something along the lines of "Oh, you caught me daydreaming... um let me think about that for a a second"... (or anything similar from a pool of possible "delay/distraction" responses.
then with a brief pause, allow for the normal response to whatever you said.

Perhaps these ideas have been thought of and solved already, if so does anyone have copies of these plugins?
If not, anyone have the knowledge or skill to develop them?

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Ultra Hal 7.0 / Can anyone help...

« on: March 09, 2008, 01:05:46 pm »

Hi guys,
Second post, so excuse being a bit wet behind the ears,
Just wanted to know if there are any easy soloutings to:

1, getting Hal to read the incoming messages on MSN messenger.

2, Using Hal as a messenger bot for MSN messenger, I know you can do it on AOL but I don't use that.

3, What is the command to go to a specific website, rather than search for it? I read that you can have hal open bookmarks, but can't find any information other than that.

Sorry for all the questions,
but seems like you guys know your stuff.

Thanks
Daniel

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Ultra Hal Assistant File Sharing Area / *NEW* HAL 9000 Skin.

« on: March 07, 2008, 12:42:08 pm »

Hi all,

I've been looking for a nice Hal 9000 skin for UltraHal,
Couldn't find one that I like all that much, so decided to create my own. So thought i'd share it...
Here's a screen shot:



Note: that the gaps between boxes are transparent (I just have a black desktop.) The transparency helps make things look a little prettier.
I'd also really recommend using the Cepstral Lawrence voice with this skin, it works and sounds wonderfully geunine.

Please read the "read me" file before using this, I've tried to keep it all in plain english and step by step... so you shouldn't have problems (unless i've been an idiot and overlooked something really obvious... don't think i have)

Well, that's that, hope you enjoy it... kept me up into the wee hours of the night (I only purchased Hal last night, and was pretty keen to get it looking right.)

Download Attachment: Hal9000skin.zip
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Enjoy!

Daniel Love