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Re:Ask HN: Good command line psychotherapy programs? by paulrpotts on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:44PM (#19432560)
In case you don't know, this all started with ELIZA, so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

You might follow that into background of other "chatterbots" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_natural_language_pr...

These would traditionally be in some variant of Lisp, for its metaprogramming capabilities. But see also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIML

User interface? Well, see Alexa, Siri, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Good command line psychotherapy programs? by willmhorne on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @12:48PM (#19432604)
Ah, yes. Thank you. As for interface, I had the sense it would be non-verbal (i.e., textual) so that the "patient" would have so subvocalize the responses. But I will consider audio like Alexa et al.
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