Can anyone refer me to good chat bots, open sourced ? I would like to develop a chat bot with my own personality tweaks and don't know how to go about it. Appreciate any pointers.
RiveScript is a FOSS chatbot scripting environment that you might want to try:
<a href="http://www.rivescript.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rivescript.com/</a>
<a href="http://www.rivescript.com/rivescript" rel="nofollow">http://www.rivescript.com/rivescript</a>
<a href="http://www.rivescript.com/aiml" rel="nofollow">http://www.rivescript.com/aiml</a><p>The original interpreter is based on Perl, but there are other first-party libraries:
<a href="http://www.rivescript.com/interpreters" rel="nofollow">http://www.rivescript.com/interpreters</a>
There is <a href="http://alice.pandorabots.com/" rel="nofollow">http://alice.pandorabots.com/</a> and assorted bots, which are open source.