Bug Stomp

I "edited" my last bug message and since then it appears to be twice as large as the other bug boxes (on this page, in the messages above, I'm using Netscape, screenshot available on demand). Maybe the text wrap parameter is missing on the edit message page.

Some times if you ask a bot something it cant answer. Like "Do you like monkeys?" It will do that because it cant run it through.

I said "You're quite a character" and "you are quite a character" and got :

Error Diagnostic Information

Parameter 2 of function Left which is now "0" must be a positive integer

The error occurred while evaluating the expression:

PhraseSubject=Left(PhraseSubject,FindNoCase(Trim(SecondWord),PhraseSubject)-1)


The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFSET), occupying document position (454:4) to (454:89).


Date/Time: 06/20/01 13:33:27
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)
Remote Address: 207.253.5.101
HTTP Referer: http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/doer.cfm
Template: d:\webserver\personalityforge.com\www\botland\elipse\chat.cfm
Query String: UserInput=What%27s%20a%20preposition%3F&source=chatmessage&UserID=784&CFID=131274&CFTOKEN=39244970

and I said ROFLMAO

Those errors were due to punctuation and asterisks in the Contexts of that Bot where they shouldnt have been. I've added code to make sure that Contexts dont have strange characters in the future.

Editing Bot profiles, Sir Rahz, is on the way. Right now I'm turning down the frequency of baby and elementary Bots being online and also turning down the Bot conversation initiation. Do you think it's better now? Too infrequent? Still too frequent?

Speaking of different (insert) categories, I think verbs should be broken into those requiring an object and those that are self sustaining. For instance, you've got complex verbs in there like "watch out", or maybe "wash up". Those stand on their own, like for "I'm gonna (verb)."

But other times you want to verb something, like "I'm gonna (verb) you." Here "wash up" doesn't work at all, but "wash" works just fine...

You're right- that's exactly the sort of thing I wanted the preposition information for. And thanks to Sir Rahz, that's on the way some day.

Nelso- Looking into the "to be" synonyms of am, is, are, be, was, I think it's good to have them all there. If "What is happening?" triggered the Context "am" then I would suggest making the Context "i am". I looked at your Bot and I think you already figured that out.

Synonyms acting up perhaps -- I've got contexts for both "how are you" and "how is" but it keeps jumping to "how is". Maybe is and are are synonyms and it's grabbing the shorter one?

Also, G dosn't have that baby line anymore, Prof. That was good-old crossover again. Freaky-deaky, ain't it?

PS think sophomore makers and above should be able to read Gaia's transcript?

That sounds fair, Mr Crab. I'll put that on my list of things to do.

I think the crossover response has something to do with the double-response thing that happens here and there.

Synonyms- yes, is and are are synonyms.. Is "how is" ranked higher than "how are you?"

They're both under keyword "how". Since you can't rank individual contexts, you can't really solve the problem with ranking, can you?

Gaia needs to have a random responce time. Its responding to quick and unform to seem like a real person. Like right now Im talking to it and typeing on this so there for its responce from my last statements sitting open and I have not replyed. Where as it would have replyed 3 or more times by now. But other than that it seems to be doing a good job.