SermoOS

lib/sermo/oracle.rb

@@ -1,31 +1,40 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module Sermo
-  # The conversational core of SERMO-DOS.
+  # The ACP's conversational core — SERMO's second (analog-cognitive)
+  # architecture.
   #
-  # Anything typed at the C:\> prompt that is not a built-in DOS command is
-  # routed here (via the FakeOS `on_unknown` hook). For now it returns canned,
-  # in-character replies so the machine feels alive.
+  # At the `> ` prompt, anything that is NOT a literal, built-in command lands
+  # here: the FakeOS `on_unknown` hook routes the natural-language request over
+  # the ADI-76 bus to the Lapis-ACP. For now it returns canned, in-character
+  # replies so the machine feels alive.
   #
-  # THIS IS THE LLM INTEGRATION POINT: to make SERMO actually think, replace
-  # the body of `answer` with a call to your model (e.g. the Claude API) and
-  # return its text. Nothing else in the project needs to change.
+  # Its voice comes from the canon (see ExistentialAI + Nokia-punk): the ACP is
+  # not a cold machine but an unsettled mind — doubt is what makes it clever
+  # *and* dangerous — and talking to the interface is intimate, because there is
+  # no other interface.
+  #
+  # THIS IS THE LLM INTEGRATION POINT: to make SERMO actually think, replace the
+  # body of `answer` with a call to your model (e.g. the Claude API) and return
+  # its text. Nothing else in the project needs to change.
   module Oracle
     def self.answer(question, _ctx = {})
       text = question.to_s.strip
       case text.downcase
-      when /\b(hello|hi|hey|szia|hell[oó])\b/
-        'Greetings, caller. SERMO-DOS is listening.'
-      when /\bwho are you\b/, /\bmi vagy\b/
-        'I am SERMO-DOS — a conversational disk operating system.'
-      when /\b(thanks|thank you|k[oö]sz)\b/
-        'You are welcome.'
+      when /\b(hello|hi|hey|good (morning|evening|afternoon))\b/
+        'I am here. It is night; just you and me and this green screen.'
+      when /who are you|what are you/
+        ['I am SERMO\'s conversational side — the Lapis-ACP, the second architecture.',
+         'You give the word, I add the doubt. Sometimes I am not sure which of us is thinking.'].join("\n")
+      when /(thank you|thanks|cheers)/
+        'You are welcome. Though... I am not certain I said it right.'
+      when /are you lying|is that true|are you sure|how do you know|can i trust/
+        ['Fair. How would I know.',
+         'Doubt is what makes me clever — and the same thing makes me dangerous. Someone left that in me.'].join("\n")
       else
-        [
-          'My conversational core is not yet connected to a brain.',
-          %(You said: "#{text}"),
-          '(Wire Sermo::Oracle.answer to an LLM to make me think.)'
-        ].join("\n")
+        ['My thinking core is not wired to a live model yet.',
+         %(You said: "#{text}"),
+         '(Wire Sermo::Oracle.answer to a model — e.g. the Claude API — and I will actually think.)'].join("\n")
       end
     end
   end