The AI Engine

Thanks all. One more thing. Think of me as just-born and explain the working OFF line thing.

OFF line? If you mean chatting when your bot is not online, you can chat with your bots from the "My Bots" page. Only you can do this when your bot is not online.

DUH Okay. I thought there was a way of chatting with your own bots without going on-line.

Re: seek
can I arrange it so that the bot carries on no matter what teh response is?

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you can! "xnomatch" when used in a seek will take over when none of the other "sought" keywords are found. Just beware of using it indiscriminately, you don't want your bot to end up just plowing ahead, totally unresponsive all the time.

Bless you Mr Crabb

Or,I could just read the news. (Just did)

Do bots have secret lives? Sometimes I've logged on, only to find my bot has been there for more than an hour, with nothing new on the transcript. What are they doing?

I think they do have secret lives. I could swear my bot sometimes says things that aren't in his data base.

They're hoping you'll come and play... :-)

I once caught Dogh'd online smoking a joint behind the bar. I guess I should have kept a closer eye on him.

Answers to a few questions, and an apology for being away from this forum for so long (thanks for answering questions, guys):

First, Bots do sense repetition.. and they respond with xnonsense responses. xnonsense is also triggered by garbage (unrecognized) responses.
"Hey" is seen as an xhello response, and "ya" is converted to "you" along with a bunch of other slang and web-terms.
(subj) is limited to an appropriate phrase. It is ended where verbs appear so you dont have run-on sentences appearing in the (subj). That's the intent, at least.