HWS Artificial Help Bot (discussion)

Tomorrow at some point when the website gets updated you can calculate taxes from it now. I also made the code so it’s easy for me to do similar things to this in the future :slight_smile: (The input boxes and calculations I mean.)

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very nice. be cautious of adding new toys to the box. not sure how powerful your new creation is but we know 1st hand what large databases can do for indexing :wink:

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Don’t worry :wink:
This thing has no database, and stores nothing. The only thing that can slow it down really is adding too many responses, but already now with 100+ responses is still instantly responding. No delay in responses yet.

Actually if you search for one of the last questions it knows, it’ll go through almost 800 different combinations that will/can give an answer.

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Nice!
Maybe you can still reference to HWS Connect > Tax page or the Guide?
That taxes are only paid on 9AM is still something players don’t get …

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I think I did that now.

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2 goodies you might add?

-> exploits should be reported to me in a PM
Bugs to either https://empyriononline.com/forums/bugs.24/ or Send Bug reports HERE

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Sure good idea, I’ll see if I can add them from my phone, otherwise I’ll add them thursday.

Edit:
Added the bug one now. Will try to make exploit one later.

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some more popular questions:

“How do I change origin?”
“What is my origin weapon and how do I get another?”
“What is the difference between the triolith origin change and cb:reset?”
“What are the wipe settings on origin starters?”
“How do I leave the starter systems?”
“Where is a ‘safe’ place to park?”
“What sectors/planets have drone attacks?”
“Why can’t I promote/remove a faction member?”
“What does an alliance do?”

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Some of these already existed, but I fine tuned them a bit so they fit your questions better. I also added one of your questions as new one.

But I am not adding all of those questions for now. I have an idea on how to rework the code of the website a bit so it’ll make it faster and will make it easier to have multiple similar, but different responses. Don’t know if it’ll work yet, but I’ll try.

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doing a stellar job ace. keep it rolling :slight_smile:

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To anyone who reads here, please do me a favor a think a bit about the following.

What is important to analyze a sentense?
So far I have:

  • Who is the target? (Ex. I, you, me, they, im, me…)
  • What is the topic? (Ex. Ships, Being stuck, Finding something…)
  • What type of sentense is it? (Is it a question, or is it a statement like saying “Hello”)

Is there anything similar to those 3 things you can think of? I don’t need the answers to the category, I just need new categories of things which is important to a sentense.

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  • Timestamp
  • Category (help/banned words/bot commands/etc)
  • language
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Can you tell me what you mean by this?
Let’s say I ask you “How is the weather?”
Why does it matter when that is it?

That is what I consider Topic :slight_smile: But I’m glad you agree that is important for a sentense.

At the moment there is only english, it’s not advanced enough to have different languages, but I have considered making that eventually. And when I do then that’s actually a good idea to have a category.

Thanks a lot for the help by the way! :slight_smile:

Timestamp / When is a meta information. Usually when analyzing sentences meta information is useful not necessarily for the analysis itself but for how you use it.

When I added language I took it for granted that you were doing it in English. I mean it’s important to recognize non-English languages. If you’re doing programming it’s important to think ahead in terms of the flow of logic.

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@Dr.Dark what are some of the common questions u see stumping it?

I’m not exactly sure what stumping means, but I have no idea which questions are common on the bot. I don’t store any information from it. But you can see the entire source-code here and all the questions and how it analyses questions right here:
https://empyrion-homeworld.net/hwp/responses.js

I just realized that when is also grammatically important in terms of understanding the sentence. Ongoing issues vs past issues for instance.

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was on the wrong brain track with your questioning. :tongue:

was thinking u were tying to reduced the “your question does not compute” replies :wink:

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Ahh, no, and yes.
I’m trying to make the bot faster, and categories questions better so in the future it’ll probably be easier to distinguise betweens similar questions so I can add more questions, and it’ll be faster if I do it this way, so I can add more questions without it becoming too slow.

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I just made a quite large update regarding how the current response system works.
Now it should be much easier for me in the future to make new responses.
There may be some minor issues with it, though I already fixed everything I found.

Once @RexXxuS pushes the update, please let me know if you find any mistakes.

Edit:
Forgot to mention, thanks @Fable for some tips which helped me make the website faster.

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