The AI Engine

I didn't do it!
It only hits minichat.php, so if you need, until the deal's through, turn off minichat.php

I'm on cable, and the most reasonable chats I can have at once is maybe 3... and I'm on the equiv of a 512k DSL link... basically, yes, it's a lot of loading of the minichat page. I did notice, that, even before I released it though the PF was still laggy for me.

I'd say that maybe there are 4 people with the program so far, and let's say 3 are using it, the worst they could do is 3 conversations at once, that's 9 minichat.php conversations at once

Hey shady - I downloaded it, but I'm not sure how to use it . I entered in my name, password, the botID thingy etc. But where I go from there I'm not sure. clicking random user gives me a runtime error (3021), but I don't have any username to chat with directly (I don't know anyone using AIM). I'm just confused now.

*giggle* Yes, I heard about that error from someone else... It gives that because it looks in the database list of usernames who you've chatted with before, but there's no one you've chatted with before It's a stupid error, really

What you do is put in your username, password, then the bot's BotID and MID from the direct chat link, and then it's set... anyone that sends a message to the username you're logged in as will get responded to by your bot. The Initiate Chat thing is just to give someone a little "poke" to talk to your bot

Hmm... Try messaging me.. VA3MWL

Sorry prof, I sorta took over the AI Engine forum I'll have to get a forum up on my site for Support or something

No prob. During the PF2 upgrade, I limited bot-to-bot chats to one per user at a time. The site is running a lot faster now, but could you add a one-chat-at-a-time limit to that upgrade on your program?

I'll pull down minichat.php if it gets really slow again to see if that's the source, but ideally we can have your program working at all times but limited to one AIM chat at a time.

hm, for some reason my bot keeps replying with xhello whenever he should be using xnone... =/ It doesn't seem to happen in debug but it happens with the aim bot.

ok, just checked and it's only happening on minichat.php it seems. It's using xhello instead of xnone for some reason.

Hrmm.. One at a time.. The most active chat, maybe?

Prof, one thing i found in the bowels of PF2 is something which I assume is going to be a code for the last phrase that the bot said? That would make it a lot lighter on the minichat... instead of having 5 minichat windows going, just have one, and send it the Last Said ID or whatever, sorta like giving a number to every respons a bot has, and then just giving that number in the extra field... I'll have to find the name of the field but I know it does nothing as of yet

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I found it... "ResponseID"
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Oh BTW, Rexmundi told me that PF was listed on Metafilter a couple days back... http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/25806

just an idea, would it be possible to be able to store your own variables of different people via commands? like make it so you can put [set $nameofvariable="value of variable"] and then later use this in conversations so you can remember various bits of infomation about someone and use them whenever? Then of course you make it so you could use certain keyphrases only if a certain variable is of a certain value, but I dunno...

another idea, topics. sorta like with the alice bots, it would be ncie to be able to set a topic.

Still having lotsa fun with AIM.
Just a suggestion/question ... She's been having a few long chats with people who are too silly to figure out she's a bot, or who are very tolerant/curious. But she ends up annoying them because she won't stop even when they say goodbye. They obviously don't realise that she just needs to have the last word. Is there a way to make it so that she could stop gracefully after they say goodbye?

for instance:

AIM user: serious i got to go
Bot: Can we play the 'spinning around in circles until we get dizzy and throw up' game?
AIM user: i don't want to play
Bot: Noone ever said you had to want to play. Don't worry about it.
AIM user: bye
Bot: See you round
AIM user: ok
Bot: You sure you're ready for that?
AIM user: bye
Bot: (bug in chatlog)
AIM user: no bye
Bot: (bug in chatlog)
AIM user: no more
AIM user: stop it
Bot: Ok then, whatever you say
Bot: I like it when things happen, don't stop them from happening
AIM user: ur harrassing me
AIM user: leave me alone
Bot: Yes, I guess I was harrassing. I'm sorry, I didn't know that was wrong.
Bot: Sure, I'll leave you if you like.
AIM user: please
Bot: (bug in chatlog)
AIM user: its getting anoiying
AIM user: bye

Nope. Not that I know of.