Now, I have good, quirky personalities for five dinosaurs, a duck, three cows, and a psychopathic kitten named Princess. But I still need to breathe life into my two robots, Cornelius and Penelope. They are just... robots. They have no personalities yet. So I need something for them. Help?

I naturally jump to extremes when it comes to comedic personalities. LOL

So I automatically thought depressed (if you want one of them to be like Marvin from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. LOL) Or you could have one of them having an anger management problem. Remember the fact that they are robots and try to think of human personality imperfections or little things that only humans do (maybe they are irritated by some weird little thing like the noise when a computer turns on) and give it to them, because a robot with extreme personality traits should add to the humour. Hopefully. LOL

Hopefully this was a helpful rant. At the very least it gave me something to do for a few minutes. :D

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I always try and give my machines the daily concerns that an actual machine would have. So, they would be paranoid about having water near them, bored because they're not switched on enough, have a superiority complex over less advanced machines etc. And medical machines all, without exception, form awkward relationships with their patients.

Or give them a worry that they cannot possible have, for example, Penelope is worried about getting fat. Or Cornelius thinks he's getting worry lines.

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I've never written a robot, but the first thing I thought was making one of them so badly want to be seen as human-like, that he tries way too hard and gets it hopelessly wrong. Like, with every little thing, tries to figure out how a human would react. Out loud. As only a robot would.

"Open that door."
"Well, I suppose I could. I probably even will. But, if I were a human, mightn't I be nervous about what's waiting on the other side? Isn't there an innate fear of the unknown? And so, to open that door would be to openly welcome the possibility of danger into my life. On the other hand, I suppose I could just call out 'Who is it?' and the being that knocked would be compelled to respond. Yes, I'll do that: Who is it?"

Or something like that. I can't tell if the example I provided really works, but I like the idea of it. Also, I don't know why my robot is vaguely British.

-- lifedoesntimitate

What if Artificial Intelligence had only reached the level of a 12-year-old?

"Robot, clear the table."
"What!"
"Robot, clear the table!"
"Shan't!"
"Clear the table NOW, or I'll turn you off!"
"Well, do it then, see if I care. Does this human interaction focus point look bovvered? Well, does it?"

"All right! I'm going, I'm going! Anyway, it's not my turn, it's Cornelius's turn, I did it last time - it's not FAIR!"
(stamps feet)

Ian