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did have a chat with you Azire. you are very lifelike

I have a question. How could I make my bot choose between two things like-
'Do you like (*) or (*) better?'
Would that work or can you not use two wildcards in one keyphrase?

I think I used "like (*) or" as the KP and used (key1) and (postkey) in responses.

There's more than one way to skin a cat with these keyphrases.

You should be able to use two wildcards. Or you could use something like Do you like (noun) or (noun) better as well. I'd probably use you like (adjartnoun) or (adjartnoun) (more|better) myself, just to catch a few extra possibilities without exposing the bot to too many blunders.

Oh, ok. Thank you very much.

I just discovered that base form reduction doesn't seem to work on singular/plural. I have a variety of animals in KeyPhrases, and I get matches for the singular, which is what I put in the phrase, but not for the plural.

For example, I have one specificially to catch "fox." It catches "fox," but it does not catch "foxes." Same thing with verbs. I have a KP for "blush," but it does not get matched by "blushes", even with a Rating of 50.

Do we have to put all forms in the KPs to catch them?

Unfortunately, the AI Engine does not yet recognize plural vs. singular. So, yes, you do need to cover all your bases. Though I think in raw mode you could probably do something like "blush[a-z] (re)" with "raw" in the AIScript box (someone who uses it more than I do can correct my syntax). This would catch blush. blushed, blushing, blushes...

Talk about plurals. One of the Chatterbox Challenge questions drove me nuts.
"Have you entered any contests" I realized that I had 'contest' but not 'contests'. SO, cover all your plurals!

>> Unfortunately
No problem. It just startled me. Oh well, back to the text editor....

something like "blush[a-z] (re)" with "raw" in the AIScript box

blush([a-z]+|) (re) would be better - without the + it will only match one letter after the root, and without the | it wouldn't match "blush" itself, since a suffix would be mandatory.
I would actually probably favour blush([abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]+|), because I've had occasional problems with ranges - the AI Engine can be a bit iffy. And yes, it will only work in raw mode.

Ah, I see. I didn't realize the + was necessary to get it to recognize multiple letters.

yup - that's what it's for.