Well, depends on the people you chat with in IM, I suppose.
Annoyed poor (but recently liberated from the tyranny of wires) Dru playing with a Wired Bot last night, insisting the poor girl try to have a conversation with it.
It had an, um, limited vocabulary and repertoire of responses. I blame the parents. Parent. Programmer. Well, script writer, more like; the actual programming involved in Building an AIM bot was handled by those with a better grasp of Perl than I.
Damning them with faint praise, there.
Anyway, ideally I could get Install the Net::AIM module on the server and let the bot run from there, so I wouldn't have to be connected for it to be live and direct. Figure I could set it up to answer limited questions about the site, rather than forcing tourists to read the archives or use the search function before saying foolish things.
I know it won't work, but it gives me something to do.
Other than data entry.
Want to know more? See hacks.oreilly.com: Create an Amazon AIM Bot for details on how you, yes, you, my friend, can create your own little virtual slave friend.
Like the Keebler RecipeBuddie, who you can easily add to your AIM buddy list and ask about. . . well, not vegan recipes, tried that, and it was singularly unhelpful, but vegetarian worked.
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