Casanova

Purpose

Twibright Casanova is a free software to semiautomate conversation on dating services. Casanova stores conversation in pairs into a database, like B was replied to A. Then you give it what the other party says and Casanova suggests what you should reply. Casanova is a commandline program written in C and working on Linux or Unix.

Psychological background

Casanova is based on Exposure effect, a psychological phenomenon by which people tend to develop a preference for things merely because they are familiar with them. Casanova always replies the way an average user of a dating service would reply. The replies will tend to be familiar to the other party. For me it works great. It makes me much more popular on the dating service than when I reply the way I am personally used to.

Requirements

C Compiler

Download, install

Download cx.c

cc -o cx cx.c
su
cp cx /usr/bin
exit
cx

Now a help page is explaining how to use Casanova. cx stands for Casanova eXecutable and the name was selected to be short and easy to type. To reinvoke the help page remove ~/.casanova_db.

Example conversation

clock@duke:~$ cx
___________________
 
=======[86/105]=======
how are you??
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
clock@duke:~$ cx "how are you?" "fine thanks and you?"
___________________
am fine thanks and you?
=======[1/5]=======
doing well here. currrently in slovakia at the moment on "vacation,"but it's
snowing like crazy!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Troubleshooting

Casanova says he cannot find anything - this happens often when the database is small. After Casanova learns, this annoyance disappears
The answer doesn'tmake sense - If the number printed is something else than ===[0/1]===, try rerunning it (possibly with disabled learning to not reinsert the pair twice). Sometimes even this doesn't help. Casanova is a machine, not a human. He doesn't understand the meaning. He uses simple algorithms for approximate text matching. I recommend you to edit the answer to fit the conversation. Casanova should get better as he learns.
Casanova gives replies I would never give - for example tells you to answer youre looking for sex, in fact youre looking for relationship. Recommended: Open ~/.casanova_db, it's a text file. Search for the unwanted answer and replace text, for example love instead of sex.