Helga with custom personalities

[shaunduncan]

Right now, a lot of ack type responses are canned, so people using random_ack get a sense that the bot just has a standard personality. Perhaps helga should have installable personalities, plugins that can define different types of responses. I think there's probably a few ways to do this:

1. A flatfile containing canned responses, one per line. They can be downloaded and configured to be used via settings
2. An installable plugin type module that provides canned responses
3. A simple list override for canned responses in settings

[bigjust]

AIML? I'm considering a helga-aiml plugin for such a thing. AIML (http://www.alicebot.org/aiml.html), despite being xml, uses the structure to provide a slightly more intelligent canned responses. There are other options, such as RiverScript (http://www.rivescript.com/) which also looks promising. Ideally one of these would allow "learning" in the sense that we can teach it stuff while running.