Newcomers

Woohoo! I caught up in another forum.

I've got lots of ideas for ways to answer some of these initial questions and improve the Book of AI. I think I'll have a special "Getting Started" page come up when someone makes their first bot.

I've been considering the idea of having bot templates available. There would be several different levels. The first would be a beginner template with simple Keyphrases (but no responses). And then several steps beyond that, one adding wildcards, one adding Keyphrase lists, one adding memories, one adding AIScript. I want the bots to be unique, but there are many Keyphrases that most developed bots have, and it would help people to get started.

When it occasionally happens that all bots are responding to xnones (and it's affecting all the bots), please email me (benji@daystream.com) and I’ll restart the server. That has always fixed it. I think it’s perhaps due to system memory running low from unclosed Perl threads. The next big challenge is converting some non-PHP parts of the AI Engine into PHP so that the entire thing can run as a single unit. But it’s extraordinarily hard.

If using 'yes' as a seek will that pick up stuff like 'sure' 'yeah' 'ok' 'okay' etc? The AI book suggests it does, but when I've tried my 'yes' seek in action, it recognises 'yes' fine, but not any other version of yes. Have i missed something?

I have had to use really really long lists for seeks including things like:
"yes, ya, yea, yeah, yup, yep, ok, okay, alright, definately, sure, uh-huh, nods, right, got it, yuppers, hai" etc...
it is a pain really, I was trying to find a way I could just make a list that would have all the variations it would follow, but it still misses at times when people say things like "you bet" or "absolutely" etc... I just can't make it long enough to get them all and there are too many now anyways....

can i see conversions between my robot and a user?

that's what transcripts are for, the link in the "my bots" page. that way you can fine tune your bot and give it responses for things it doesn't yet have answers for.

"yes" picks up several varieties of positive responses, but not all. One option would be to make a plug-in of the more obvious varieties, and add onto it as new ones showed up. *shrugs*

hi all am new here i hope you all like me and hope we chat soon

how would i go about making a plug-in for positive responces. And can i set it up so everyone can use it (cause I'm that kind of guy)?

Hmmm... There's already one under "phrases" called (_yes_), made by d the novice. But you would just go into plug-ins, create new plug-in, and click "yes" on "shared".

My bot has done it again...
She starts a conversation with a good bye phrase! Do I have too few hello phrases?

I have had that happen too.

That means the bot is about to log out anyway.