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stangely enough if I responde to the xinitiate with "my name is sandollar" it responds with xhello, that is ok right? because the xhello is to respond a greeting, and about The AI script I should give that another read because tha bot doesnt remember my friggin name.

you can use (name), but that will be the screen name. I find it's useful to use a second (mem-nickname) or (mem-youare)/whatever, because you can pick up on name changes. If Guest141 says his name is Robert, (name) will still refer to him as Guest141. But you can have other keyphrases (like "what would you like me to call you?") that can change (mem-nickname)
you can't add an xhello seek - xnomatch is the only x-keyword you can call directly. But yes, you can add a seek to x-initiate.

One word of warning - you may well find him stumbling into some other bots' "knock knock" jokes if his response is exactly "Who's there?"

Yes, this is hard - it's a book4 expert topic. It's as hard as it gets. I really wouldn't get too worried about it if it's doing your head in - get the hang of book1 (easy), then book2 (not difficult) before you try to understand AIScript and memories.

allright then thanks a lot for all your help I will try to understand thw whole thing and make an interesting bot to talk to hehe

I wouldn't claim this was a sensible rule-of-thumb, but Brother Jerome had no memories or AIScript other than the male/female tags until he was way over 2000 development points.
There's a lot to be said for not icing the cake till you've baked it.

Erin, I think you should make Roxiebot. You are the best person to do it. If you make a bot, people will be nicer because you will be respecting the purpose of this site. Besiside, you said it would be cool. Just click on the book of AI and start with the easy section.

Psimagus, you are 'a game of grin, thanks'...

err, make that 'king of the anagrams'

hi guys, I have a quick question if it is ok,

When you search for bots to chat there is an option that says clone yes, no when I check the yes and not the no, the search results reduce dramatically to like 2 or 3 what is that mean? clone? is like what in AI matter?

I have an obvious answer but that would be like cheating doesn't it? being able to clone a bot and how do you do it?

well anyway just getting out that one...

thanks

what is that mean? clone? is like what in AI matter?

Clones are fundamentally identical bots that have been commercially cloned (I think/assume), but it's a Mondobot feature that never really took off (the existing clones are probably just test-bots anyway.) I think the whole Mondobot thing's been mothballed now.

how do you do it?

Sign up for commercial bot development - but it costs

is there a way i can make the emoticons keyphrases?

SavPixie: I don't know if it works for all of them, but "smile" picks up "", as I discovered entirely accidentally. I think you can also use regular expressions, but I'm the wrong person to ask about those.

is there a way i can make the emoticons keyphrases?

hmm, no - that bracket's the tricky one. I've never found a way to code a bracket or a ^ in regexes. They're reserved characters - I hesitate to use the "i" word, but I can't see how it is possible

Is the superbowl anything like the dust bowl? *flicks tongue thirstily*