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Isaac (or anyone):

Suppose you WANT to say "Othello". Is there any kind of escape character you can use?

Humorhog- keyphrase: how are you doing
should be triggered by someone saying "How are you doing today?"
If it's not working, you can use debug- you type in "how are you doing today?" and then read the processing that occurs (what happens in your bot's brain) before it ultimately decides how to respond. That can be helpful, because you can see what keyohrase your bot is matching, and sometimes that tells you why you're not getting the response you want. Sometimes it's just a matter of setting the rank of one keyphrase higher than another, sometimes it's something else, and sometimes it is actually a bug (but usually not).
Don't get discouraged, read the Book of AI as you get to it, and feel free to ask questions and share your successes and difficulties, and ask for help as you need it.

Okay thanks.

Ummmmm I'm having another problem. And, um, it's kind of an embarrassing problem to discuss publically but I don't know of any other way to figure it out, so, here goes.......

What do you do if you read the transcript and you see that someone (a guest in this case) has made some possibly sexually suggestive comments to the bot? Is there anything that can be done? That's just something I'd rather not have my bot exposed to...lol.

Yes, you can wince your way through it as you create keyphrases for the offensive phrases or words that you want to stop, then rank them at 50, and put HANGUP (just like that) as the only response.

Depends on you. Most of us try to discourage that kind of chat by having negative responses and/or HANGUPs ready. So you might have a keyphrase for the offensive words with 'HANGUP' as the response, and the bot will just end the chat. Or you could have something like "Watch your mouth" and have a seek for "okay" or "sorry" to let them keep chatting, but a seek for xnomatch will HANGUP.

What happens when you put a HANGUP for a response? Does the bot automatically just kick the chat session, or does it say goodbye and hope the other person will get the clue?

It should stop the session immediately.

Okay, I put the innuendo in with all responses as HANGUP (I know I probably only need one, but just to be sure...lol). It wasn't necessarily horrible per se, I mean it could have been worse, but it's just something I like to nip in the bud.

Uh-oh. It didn't work. I just started a chat with her and said the keyphrased innuendo and she took it as a compliment. I was hoping it would HANGUP.

Try adjusting the rank of the keyphrase. It has to be fairly high to override the emotion responses.

I put the rank at 50 and the emotion at -5. I also put the emotion range of the HANGUP responses at -5 to -5.

That's what's wrong- you need to leave the emotion range of the responses at -5 to 5. If you have it at -5 to -5, the bot will only hangup on someone it hates already.