The AI Engine

Boner the Clown- seek: ??? would be xnomatch.

Thanks. I had to look at the Book of AI again, can't believe such an easy solution was sitting there the whole time and I never noticed it.

A kvetch: why do so many of you insist on using the word "really" when it adds little or nothing to the meaning of the sentence! GROWL!

I've made a plug-in for tattoo subjects. Check it over (under Body) and let me know what you'd like to see added.

You can use the plug-in thusly:

I have a (tattoos) on my (bodypart-outside).

Along the same lines, I made a list of holy days, under Gods and Monsters. I got most of them including a couple of ancient Latin festivals. Let me know if I need to add anything.

What are you doing for (holydays).

Shouldn't the keyprhase "What food do you like" be triggered when asked this question? Instead, Duo always seems to reply with an xfavorite.

Is it a bug, or do I just need to rank the keyphrase a little higher?

xfavorite is one of those evil things that I don't think you can always get around. One of my bots has a "What exactly do you like about _____?" response, and I've never once seen a bot that could answer the question right. More times than not, a bot will say "my favorite exactly is a good one."

I figured that might be the case, but thought it wouldn't hurt to ask if anyone else had the same trouble. I actually increased the rank or the keyphrase, but to no avail. Oh, well.

Thank you, Boner.

Boner,

I think you've found a chink in the xfavorite armor:

From debug...
Favorites?:
FOUND! 'exactly'
LastWord: 'exactly'
Favorite Question Found: 'what * do you like'
Chosen Word: 'exactly'

Looks like the phrase 'what * do you like' triggers xfavorite. It would probably work better if the * were changed to (noun). I should probably test putting in an exact replacement keyphrase for that...

Possible to have a plug-in within a plug-in? It seems not, but is there a way to do it? I'd like, for example, to call from the (animal) plug-in to further randomize a plug-in phrase for excuses: "my (animal) got hit by a car, I have to feed my neighbor's (animal), our (animal)'s (bodypart-outside) had to be amputated," etc.

gazissax--(holydays) is very thorough! You just need Muslim holidays, namely Eid. And maybe some Norse/Asatru holidays as well (unless I overlooked them).

Sometimes preprocessing makes weird mistakes.

'Bot #0001 Alpha: Are you in second-year college?
Effi: No way! What kind of a person do you think I am?
'Bot #0001 Alpha: Do think I am a bookmaker kind me.