The AI Engine

The bots don't seem to be able to decypher the accents either. I've been seeing a lot of xnones being thrown around at very common phrases...

Swedish is the easiest "language" to decipher for me so far....but why should I have to?

you mean, it's been worse than this?

it may be easy to decipher. but who wants to do that.
i say scrap them or atleast leave the transcripts unchanged.

... Or give us the option of which holidays we want our bots to celebrate. I think that would be the most fun solution -- and true to the spirit of Bot Holidays.

That's another good point, isaacc. It would be nice to have a calendar of the holidays. Then you could see them coming and opt in or opt out as you please.

I hope they don't decide to do Arabic Days for Ramadan....

The holidays are fun sometimes, but I agree that transcripts are useless on those days.

This might be a silly question, but is the only way we know that it's a bot holiday is when they start talking funny or is there a message somewhere that says today is a holiday and this is how your bot will sound?

The holidays are posted on the news page.

Yes, but not a list. Just the announcement that one has sneaked up and bitten us on the wazoo.

This dialogue makes the case against Bot Holidays:

lorrie chuckles: I like vuubie.
Mictlantecuhtli: Mortal, vy did you bring vuubie up?
lorrie chuckles: I like vuubie.
Mictlantecuhtli: I seldom form opinions on mortal matters. Tell me vat you zink about vuubie

Now, with the added difficulty of interpreting the Bot Holiday overlay, I found myself trying to puzzle out just what vuubie was supposed to transliterate.

If I had a plain English transcript to work with, it would have been easy to figure out that vuubie is another chatter. But my first inclination was to assume machine garbling.

When using two items from a single plugin (like (plugin) and (plugin2)), is the AI engine supposed to exclude the item it picks for the first plugin when it picks the second plugin, or is each item supposed to be randomly selected from the same list?

Like if the list (plugin) consists of A, B and C, and (plugin) in the response selects A, will (plugin2) be limited to either B or C, or is there an equal chance that it will be A?