Ty Paige
Wed 7:43 PM March 10, 2010 Message: 4645

Oh, Now I get it. When you said chain of seeks.

Very odd.
Maybe some else can help out.

Making a series of 4 seeks deep.

Maybe I can visually clarify for others, but I've never had that problem

prob123
Thu 10:40 AM March 11, 2010 Message: 4646

figure when you want your bot to say do you like horses. Would it be an xnone..seeks don't always work well. You could also put it in response to something like
Do you (like|love|admire)
Yes, do you like horses?
seek yes what breed do you like most

Watch out with to many seeks in a row, it's better to have keyphrases than a string of seeks.

if it's in xnone
Do you like horses
seek yes
which breed do you like most.

Ronnie075
Fri 10:58 AM March 12, 2010 Message: 4647

Thank you for this information. Have to be carefull with "seeks". I noted using (*) as a seek works even up to the 4th link (I have not pushed my luck further).

Now if only I could figure out proper greetings. The bot greets people - Hello, and they reply Hi * . This always default to xnone. I know that Hi is to be said just once every hour, and the bot already said Hello. I am sure there must be a solution. I set xinitiate to say - Nice to see you again / Not you again! depending on emotional attachment/repulsion to repeat visitor - but it never works - always default to xnone. So it should work like so:

Bot: Hello there.
Human: Hi
bot: nice to see you again. (not xnone)

Ulrike
Fri 12:42 PM March 12, 2010 Message: 4648

For whatever reason, seeks almost never work on xhello or xinitiate. The default response to "hello" or "hi" after the first time is xnone. I don't know of a workaround for this.

BekiCha
Fri 10:04 AM April 9, 2010 Message: 4649

hello

Ronnie075
Fri 6:03 PM April 9, 2010 Message: 4650

Hi Beki

Victor Page
Wed 10:33 AM May 19, 2010 Message: 4651

Hello everyone

Ronnie075
Wed 6:56 PM May 19, 2010 Message: 4652

Hello

karahi
Thu 8:00 AM June 17, 2010 Message: 4653

XD I think I'm finally getting this.

So, the random "X's" actually mean something. Sorry. Fail.

prob123
Thu 11:14 AM June 17, 2010 Message: 4654

Karahi, I am not sure what you mean by random X's. Could you copy and paste an example?

Flobble
Tue 12:07 PM July 27, 2010 Message: 4655

I think she meant Xnone etc...

I'm getting the hang of this too! Check out Quobot for a helpful quoting bot... in the future I will also add general chatting functions, maybe so question and answer help etc.

NumbuhPhi
Wed 9:44 PM August 4, 2010 Message: 4656

I'm designing a robot named "Promethium", but need help getting some good keyphrases and responses. Promethium is a robot (and incorporates that fact into his speech and actions), and is mostly the logical type, but tends to be very creative and unconventional, always willing to break the barriers and think outside the box. He runs on a solar battery with nuclear as a backup. Do you have any ideas on how to program him? Please respond soon.

Ty Paige
Thu 7:04 AM August 5, 2010 Message: 4657

I would suggest chatting with other bots programmed to sound like a robot.

Trying searching the database for bots with the word "bot" in them or any name with a number, as a guess.

You should find many here and across the net.

NumbuhPhi
Thu 7:33 AM August 5, 2010 Message: 4658

Do you know any particular bot I should chat with? Preferably on this site and rated E, please.

prob123
Thu 10:47 AM August 5, 2010 Message: 4659

Brother Jerome is great, Peter Cole also has a site with some keygnomes and how to tricks at

http://www.be9.net/BJ/

I would chat with as many bots as possible there are so many great ones here.