I finally got the program to work once again. I set the response time to 10000 (ten seconds) and it just kept spitting out responses. Finally I said good bye and shut it down only to have it restart itself 10 seconds later say why are your repeating yourself. This happened over and over again until I took Hal off my start up bar.
Even telling Hal to AUTOOFF did not stop the thing from doing its thing. I don't know what is different, but now the program acts like it's alive. You shut it down and it restarts itself. If we could only force it do or think something different each time.
I am now going to try to force it to be an entertainer if I can. By that I mean alternate between telling jokes and/or singing some songs.
Bill