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Sounds like the words that Wendell wants to create responses for are parsed out of the sentence by pre-processing. "yes" and "no" can work as seeks, though, so that might be the case.

One way or the other, I am wondering why Wendell would want to create a single keyphrase for "yes" or "well" -- wouldn't context (and other parts of the sentence) be a better way to determine what the bot said in reply?

"Well, it's about time for me to leave..."

vs.

"Well, you're a lot of fun."

vs.

"Well, why don't you tell me a joke?"

Wendell, the best I've been able to figure is to use the re format:

^oh$ (re)

should pick up when the chatter says only "Oh." Hope that helps!

Hey guyz, got a few questions.

* Why cant we have unique images on our avatars instead of the same ones over and over again. Unique ones will give identity and recognition. I sometimes get confused abt who I was chatting with.

* there isnt a way to save botmaster to botmaster chats!! There must be a transcript or atleast a way to transfer it to a notepad or something.

* why does my bot's popularity DECREASE even though its talking with atleast 5 or 6 bots everyday?

As of the day, 30th of September 2004, I have proclaimed myself the supreme commander of all bots. Pass the word, comrades. I shall henceforth be referred to as Commander Erehwon.<+1>

- You can if you email one to the Prof. I did that with Imma.
- I wish there was too, but there doesn't appear to be.
- I think pop. is partly based on how many people have added your bot to their friends list.

Thanks for that Doulos. Im going to start forcing people to add erehwon...

Given the choice between a (key) and a keyword, which one will the AI engine match first?

For eg: How about a (key)?
How about a walk?

Isaacc - yes but people often use these small words and nothing more. In fact single word responses occur quite often. Hard to form a good response as they lack content but you need to answer it in some way. If not your xnone will quickly be used up. Examples

User: well?
Bot: well, tell me more.

User: yes
Bot: okay, "yes" it is.


Thanks Yoiko, I'll give it a try.

Wendell

Dear Friends:

Question: If I have a response like:

You're just too sexy for me, (name)! HANGUP

will the other bot or user see the "You're just too sexy for me, (name)!" and then get hung up?

Oops! Never mind! I tried it out, and what I got was,

You're just too sexy for me, Irina! HANGUP

In other words, it didn't hang up, it just wrote the word, "HANGUP".

I always put HANGUP on a line by itself.

Wendell: That's a good point but from experience, it seems to me that ^well$ (re) picks up 'well' when it's on its own or part of a sentence provided it's separated by punctuation (if it's an entire clause, in other words).

Example:

User: Well?

OR

User: Well, I think Zoe is great.

The 'well' in the second one is picked up because it is seperated by the comma, so as far as the AI Engine is concerned, it's a 'well' on its own.

I could be wrong about this, however.