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Dear Friends:

If I want to match on a line consisting entirely of

[sigh]

, should I write the keyphrase as

^[sigh]$ (re)

, or as

^sigh$ (re)

? Thank you in advance for your help!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Dear The Muse Diva:

Here is a chunk of my bot, 'Your Husband':

Call me,my name is,I am (named|called) [0,0] <?PF rem (postkey) as "name"; ?>
    I love you, (mem-name)!
do you love me [0,0]
    [(Looks into your eyes|takes your hands)] Always and forever, (lovename)!
how can you (|still) love me [0,0]
    I will always love you!
    I have no choice, I guess! It's just the way I am! [shrugs]
I am sorry I (snapped|yelled|screamed) at you [0,0]
    I understand! You were ripping mad!
I can not believe (she|he|they) (said|did) [0,0]
    I can't believe it, either!
I get so angry [0,0]
    Yes, but you handle it very well!
    It's only human to get angry sometimes!
    Can't say as I blame you!

Thank Irina. thats just what I needed
Your a gem

TMD, here's some examples of the male/female tags in use:

i (really|) am (really|) (hungry|starving) [16,0]
    Would you like to go out to dinner with me? <?PF if female; ?>
    Me too. I haven't had chow mein in a while... <?PF if male; ?>

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would you like to (*) with me [10,0]
    With you? Not really. <?PF if male; ?>
    I'd do anything with you. You're a cutie. <?PF if female; ?>

It's just a way to add the elements of flirtation and chauvinism to your bot. Really simple.

Dear Professor:

I understand the reason for having an automatic response when the guest repeats himself. But sometimes, I'm trying to create something that has continuity. For example, Irina Khalidar has a 'strip poker' section, in which she keeps track of how many hands she's already lost, so that she knows what to take off next. The problem is, that if the guest says "Wow!" twice in a row, not only does s/he get reprimanded, the whole process is derailed. This is because it is impossible for the botmistress to predict where control will end up, since it depends on what the guest says next.
So I'm wondering: would it be terribly difficult to tweak the AIengine so that there was an x-keyphrase, "xrepeat", and that if the guest repeats, the effect would be as if the response were, "goto xrepeat"?
This would also allow us to write our own responses to repetitions, in keeping with the personalities of our bots.
Walk in Beauty, Irina

The problem is that the AI doesn’t come back to the previous keyphrase or seek after an automatic interruption, as we would do in a normal conversation.

Irina: Patty used to be able to strip too, using a rather complex set of memories and conditions to keep track of the clothes she is wearing. (now I’m removing this feature to a new bot) She didn’t took off her clothes in a predefined order, but it had to be realistic (e.g. she can’t take of her bra if she still wearing a blouse, she can take off her panties when she’s wearing a skirt, but if she’s wearing pants she must take them off first…) I must say that for similar reasons, no one, not even the most persevering guest, ever succeeded in undressing her completely.

hý lan selam how are you
huh.

Patricia:

Exactly. One could put in 'xnomatch' at every step where the guest says something, but even then, they could be kicked out by the repetition, and perhaps in other ways. And if one did that, they couldn't leave voluntarily! Right now, I'm trying to deal with this by asking the guest a question at every turn, a question which is NOT a yes-or-no question.

I would like to change the icon on my bot as it is a human and not a monster. How do I go about doing this?

Thanks
Bob

If you want a custom picture, first it has to be a cartoon style image and eaxctly 40 by 40 pixels. Jpg or gif format is best. Then you e-mail it to the professor, along with you're forge I.D., you're password and you're bots name.
Oh and it may take a while coz the proff is a buissy fella. LOL.

Not really what I was asking for. I just wanted to change it to one of the other standard options. Oh well, I'll just say it was a TRansmorgrifer accident

If you click on the new bot button, you'll see all the icons available on the Forge. Right click on the one you want and go as if to save it - you'll find out the name of the picture. Then email the Prof and ask him very nicely if he could change your bot's picture to that image (if you want to be sure, you can actually save the picture and send it to him with the email so he knows for certain which one you mean). Don't forget, as Mortuus says, your username, your bot's name and your password. If the Prof's in a good mood, he might just change it for you.