// Author: Matthew Shiel // Code adapted from https://github.com/kennysong/goeliza/ package eliza import ( "fmt" "math/rand" "regexp" "strings" "time" ) type InteractiveBot interface { ReplyTo(statement string) string } type BotPersonality struct { Personality *Personality } func NewBotPersonality(personality *Personality) *BotPersonality { return &BotPersonality{personality} } // Greetings will return a random introductory sentence for ELIZA. func (p *BotPersonality) Greetings() string { return p.randChoice(p.Personality.Introductions) } // GoodbyeResponse will return a random goodbye sentence for ELIZA. func (p *BotPersonality) GoodbyeResponse() string { return p.randChoice(p.Personality.Goodbyes) } // ReplyTo will construct a reply for a given statement using ELIZA's rules. func (p *BotPersonality) ReplyTo(statement string) string { // First, preprocess the statement for more effective matching statement = p.preprocess(statement) // Then, we check if this is a quit statement if p.IsQuitStatement(statement) { return p.GoodbyeResponse() } // Next, we try to match the statement to a statement that ELIZA can // recognize, and construct a pre-determined, appropriate response. for pattern, responses := range p.Personality.Psychobabble { re := regexp.MustCompile(pattern) matches := re.FindStringSubmatch(statement) // If the statement matched any recognizable statements. if len(matches) > 0 { // If we matched a regex group in parentheses, get the first match. // The matched regex group will match a "fragment" that will form // part of the response, for added realism. var fragment string if len(matches) > 1 { fragment = p.reflect(matches[1]) } // Choose a random appropriate response, and format it with the // fragment, if needed. response := p.randChoice(responses) if strings.Contains(response, "%s") { response = fmt.Sprintf(response, fragment) } // fmt.Printf("For Statement \"%s\" got a hit with pattern \"%s\" Responded With \"%s\"\n", statement, pattern, response) return response } } // If no patterns were matched, return a default response. return p.randChoice(p.Personality.DefaultResponses) } // IsQuitStatement returns if the statement is a quit statement func (p *BotPersonality) IsQuitStatement(statement string) bool { statement = p.preprocess(statement) for _, quitResponse := range p.Personality.QuitResponses { if statement == quitResponse { return true } } return false } // preprocess will do some normalization on a statement for better regex matching func (p *BotPersonality) preprocess(statement string) string { statement = strings.TrimRight(statement, "\n.!") statement = strings.ToLower(statement) return statement } // reflect flips a few words in an input fragment (such as "I" -> "you"). func (p *BotPersonality) reflect(fragment string) string { words := strings.Split(fragment, " ") for i, word := range words { if reflectedWord, ok := p.Personality.ReflectedWords[word]; ok { words[i] = reflectedWord } } return strings.Join(words, " ") } // randChoice returns a random element in an (string) array. func (p *BotPersonality) randChoice(list []string) string { // Added for truly random generation of numbers with seeds if len(list) == 0 { return "" } rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano()) randIndex := rand.Intn(len(list)) return list[randIndex] }