The AI Engine

The name Balinor might trigger a memory or gossip about Balinor -- if memories were working right, which they aren't.

In any kind of response, you can use (friend) or (enemy) to insert a bot or person's name that your bot likes or dislikes.

That is the *only* part of gossip and memory that I understand, Shadyman. That much makes sense to me ... but there my comprehension ends.

Ah. ok. there are xmem keywords such as xmem-iam, xmem-youare. To use this, you would put a response in xmem-iam, for example, "I remember you think I am (mem)."

For xmem-youare, it would be something like "I remember you are (mem)."

as for gossip, It's similar, it's just that what the bot is remembering is not something that the current bot said. For example, xgossip-iam could include "(gossipname) thinks I am (subj)... Do you think so?"

Now the book of ai says (mem) but my bots all use (subj).. has that been changed? Should they use (mem) instead of (subj) for memories and gossip?

Is there any way to trigger these memories, other than in the xmem and xgossip special prompts?

I think there was at some point. Haven't look in to it recently.. have to wait for someone who knows what they're talkign about to reply

I think that's the only way.

Sometimes the mention of a name can trigger gossip. For instance if a bot says "Have you met Desti? She's cool" the other bot may reply "Desti told me that she's a rectangular parsnip" (Assuming that's actually in the bot's memory). This only tends to happen if you don't have any other keyphrases that could be triggered in that situation, because the name in the input itself is acting like a keyphrase.

There have been instances where this gets into a loop, but I haven't seen it for a while. I think the Professor took steps because it was happening a lot.

Okay, that's right. But you can't manually trigger it.

corwin, a bot's name triggers x-mem no matter how you keyphrase it, i've spent hours trying to 'work' around it, i know the prof is pulling his hair out too
Eugene, i agree

How about a one-worded version of (noun) (adj) and the like to complement the (sometimes multi-worded) (noun) and (adj) that we already have? It would just have to pick single words (no spaces or hyphens) out of the list

A quote from the Book of A.I.

There are a few special plug-ins for the Special Memory & Gossip Keyphrases:
(mem) This is the substance of the memory. Make sure your usage of this matches the kind of memory Keyphrase you're working on.