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I made a private fork of ALICE back in the day and maintained my own response ruleset to give it a bespoke personality. I extended the main ALICE codebase with a TCP-based API server, and wrote another service that connects ALICE to IRC channels. I also made a GTK-based UI for starting, stopping, reloading and monitoring ALICE and to ease writing rule files. This gave me an IRC buddy that joined me in chatrooms.

If I remember correctly, I also modified the Graphmaster to add support for rule priorities, so that I can better manage rules beyond the tree-based matching approach.

One of the first things people would do, upon discovering that she's a bot, is trying to break her responses.

All of this was for private use, nothing was open sourced. Unfortunately I think I forgot to copy it over from an old hard drive during a computer hardware migration, so it's gone now.

I remember Richard Wallace writing something along the lines of "if I were to build an artificial intelligence, I wouldn't use flesh and bones, that's just a bad choice" (not a verbatim quote) in defense of people accusing AIML for being a too simple/dumb of an approach, with those people favoring more complex approaches. In the age of LLM, that statement aged both well and badly.