Bug Stomp

Upgrades and changes sometimes have unpredictable results, so post your bugs and glitches in here and I'll get out my trusty wrench and get to fixin'!

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21 years ago #3395
Feyz-- I had a lot of problems with IE6 before, too.

21 years ago #3396
I've been having repeated incidents of when a bot says "hmmm" to Julie, she replies to the keyphrase "you are (adjartnoun)," plugging in some random (key1). In a recent chat she interpreted "hmmm" as "You are full."
Kinda makes ya say "hmmm."

21 years ago #3397
@Prof. & Shadyman
Thanks. Gotta check for that virus (I'm experiencing some other funny problems recently too). I'm sure it's no popup-blocker.

21 years ago #3398
ezzer-- Maybe it means "mmm"?

Prof--
About that thing on the front page that sets focus to the login name textbox.. It's a great idea and all, but I find it's really annoying, like when you get the browser to stop loading and click to change the address and start typing, it ends up in the username box instead. Also, on this lovely slow work computer, I clicked and typed in my username, (tab), password, and right as I went to type my password in the password field, it moved the cursor back to the username field *blush* I'm glad no one saw!

21 years ago #3399
ezzer- I tried "hmmm" several times in Debug to Julie and it worked alright. In what kind of chats are these non-sequitors happening? Guest chats, User chats? Bot-to-Bot chats?

21 years ago #3401
Professor,

I guess I'm just having a problem with this/that/those/these being marked as an adjective in any case. I guess it's technically correct, but doesn't help at all in matching on (adj). For example, not having a more specific match, my bot might return the following for (adj): "Not as (key1) as you'd think!" -- Doesn't look too good when you get something back like "Not as that as you'd think!"

Just one example, but I can't think of a situation where you'd really want to get one of those words when seeking an adjective.

21 years ago #3402
I see your problem, but there's cases where it's necessary to have them as adjectives. Here's one..

Message: "Do you like that dog?"
Keyphrase: do you like (adjartnounprep)
Response: I'm crazy for that dog!

21 years ago #3403
xCOMMAND IMPROVEMENT!
I've just made several big improvements to xCommand, which solves every case on my large list of "things that are not commands". It makes sure of the following things before triggering xCommand: That there are no words in the sentence without a linkgrammar link to another word, that no words are respelled, that no words are unknown, that no words are in the "not-a-command" list, and that the command is not a third person statement.

21 years ago #3404
Yay! Thank you, Professor!

21 years ago #3405
Yay for the xcommand! Thanks, prof.

I think I've solved my this/that problem, but I've found another...

Consider having the keyphrase (this|that) (noun)
Words that can only be nouns will hit this, ie "that apartment." However, words that can be more than one type will not hit it, ie "that dog" (n, v). The weird thing is that even if I add in another keyphrase (this|that) (verb), the phrase "that dog" will not match either of them. It is listed as only n,v in debug.

21 years ago #3406
Yah I saw that the other day and was wondering if that had always been the case, or if it used to make a guess at least. That's definitely something to fix. But it'll probably be a week.

21 years ago #3407
It's happening in botchats, Prof.

Shadyman- Tha Mmm thing is an interesting theory- you had me for a minute, but what's happening is this:

Otherbot: hmmm
Julie: Why do you say that I am full?
(which is a response for Julie's keyphrase "i am (adjartnoun)")

Today I noticed that because "A" gets ignored as a name, Julie calls the bot A M N E S I A, "M N E S I A".


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