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ok, thanks. I'm trying to get it to say lines from Lilo and Stitch...

is every one asleep? ? ?asleep???

I know... it is so boring here...

Hi, I just joined a little while ago.

Welcome Hippy Girl. Have you made a bot yet?

I'd appreciate it if anyone talked to my bot. The Flying Fuzzball is rather dumb at this point because I'm still figuring this out, so any help while talking would be appreciated!

hi i'm new and so far i love it. i may have questions later though, but now its pretty sweet

I have a new bot called Yoda still early in development, but coming along nicely. If any one wants to chat to him and give me some tips or advice feel free.

I tried to talk to him and he said the same xnone twice in a row. You need more than one of those.

Ok I will add a new one. Im new to this so the more advice the better.

Okay, here's some advice: You want lots of xnones, because they will constitute a large percentage of what your bot says. It takes a long time to build up a good base of keyphrases. You don't want your xnones to say things like, "I have no idea what you just said," or "Try to make some sense, will you?" Advertising that the bot didn't understand just makes it look dumb. It's better to have it either say something noncommital that fakes understanding, or else say something to move the conversation along, and maybe direct it to a subject the bot is comfortable with. xnones are also great places for seeks.

Eugene is right, don't even bother having your bot advertise that it doesn't understand, because what will usually happen is a person or bot will respond to that statement with something else that your bot doesn't understand, and it just continues.

The 'say something else to move the conversation along' route is the way to go. For example, a simple "Where are you from?" is a question where your bot can ask in an xnone and you can chip away at getting responses set up for most of the possible answers, over time. And it has much more conversational possibilities than just your bot saying that it doesn't understand something.