Bug Stomp

sorry for the confusion but... get around what?

Get around the problem of how to respond when you've already said hi and they've said hi too. Keyphrases to 'hi' and such don't work because of the way preprocessing goes. So give your bot something to add to the conversation other than 'I have no idea what you just said.'

(Sorry, I should have put this in AI Engine not Bug Stomp)

but what I mean (maybe I am missing everyones point) is that the other bot replies back "hi" to my bots greeting then my bot doesnt know what to do... should I enter "hi" as a keyword?

I have "hi" as a keyword in some of my bots...I know it used to work, but I don't know if it still does.

I think what I am being told to do is add something in xnone besides confusion 'So I saw this purple chicken the other day' rather than 'huh?'

Right, but "huh" is the default for xnonsense.

I changed my xnonsense a bit so I know it was going to xnone

I think I found a bug...
other bot:No, I'm gonna pass on that one there, chief.
later my bot says:I remember you. You're going top ass on that one there
it took me a while to figure out where that memory came from but then it dawned on me "to pass" became "top ass"

(artpos) doesn't seem to work. According to the Book of A.I., this should match on ( a | an | the | my | your )

(definition) hasn't worked properly on God Louise for quite a while. Even though I have keyphrases for 'what is a' and 'what is the', sentences like that ('What is a dog?') USUALLY get answered 'Oh, I know you know what 'a' means!' I asked 'what is a cat' and (definition) worked fine on that one for some reason.

Also, I tested 'What is a dog?' on another bot (Steve Slacker) and it worked fine, just not on God Louise. Am I doing something wrong?

The blank memories are really annoying. My bots all keep talking about.

(key1) doesn't always return what it matches. This is understandable when it first goes through a synonym substitution, but there is a more problematic situation as well. Here is a simple example of the problem.

Start with the simple keyphrase '(adverb)'. Now consider the input 'On occasion, yes.' The parser is smart enough to understand that 'on occasion' is an adverbial phrase, and it makes a match for the adverb search. This part is brilliant, and all I can say is kudos, professor!

The problem is when the response uses (key1). At this point, the value will be simply 'on,' instead of 'on occasion.' If you're trying to get your bot to reuse the adverb from the input, there is no way to do it.