My bots and the future.

My first question is: How do I get my chatbot to carry on a conversation, rather than just spew lines from a script? How do I make a “smart” chatbot. I have tried the AI ones and the ones using GPT-3 wer horrible. Can anyone provide any insight as to how this is done?

Sneaky Dragon

What I want to do:

I want to build a Companion AI Chat-bot for myself. All of the publicly available bots are mostly brain dead. On Topic Memory is my biggest issue. Along with personal (self) memory retention is forcing me to peruse other avenues.

I am going down two parallel paths; building a conversational companion type bot that can carry on a conversation like (or better than) the Ameca or Harmony bots and an avatar of equal capability (IE; fully controllable, within reason).