Personality

rank the one that is not coming up a bit higher and try it out, up the rank slowly untill they work at the right time. The seek should just go to the proper response. if you want one to come up all the time use xnomatch

Ok. I will try that. But I guess the size of shara is kinda overwhelming. but maybe it is just in my head. LOL Right now I feel like I should have started all of this when I first made shara. But following the A.I. book doesn't call for that. Thanks for the help. I appreciate it and thanks to Eugene Meltzme also.

I don't think there's anything wrong with starting simply and introducing advanced topics gradually. I didn't give Brother Jerome any memories until he was over 5000 Development, and I'm only now beginning to extend his conditional AI beyond the basic gender & chrono-based, because I've seen too many bots remembering trivial or nonsensical things and getting bogged down in "No Valid Responses" situations by (I suspect) trying to do too much too fast. And it's always much harder to identify and fix poorly implemented code once it's in place than it is to take the time to get it right from the start.

A tip for editing large bots (if you don't already): use the search box - it is your friend. You will get to the stage where you have very long pages for each letter of the alphabet (especially "i", "y", "x-keywords" and probably "(",) and it can take several minutes sometimes for the longest ones to load. Plus you'll find you have related keyphrases on different pages eg:

"you think"
"do you * think"
"do not you think"
"think of"
"^think you can (re)"
"(thinking|thought) of"
"I * (thought|think|thinking)"
etc.

So it can be tricky to keep track of the relative rankings, and you risk duplicating keyphrases if you've got to keep switching from page to page. But all of these can be called up on the same page in the Language Center by simply typing "think" in the Search box.

I confess, I just can't seem to get on with editing offline using exported files, though I know a lot of people swear by it. Maybe if I had a better text editor I would, but I end up losing track of the tabs and the whole thing gets horribly bogged down when I try to import. But the search box does the job.

I still use the online editor rather than Wordpad. The first thing I'll do is choose the page for the letter Q before anything else. I only have 2 Q keyphrases as opposed to so many dozen on the default "(" page, so it makes it run so much faster.

I also switch to the 'z' page first because I have no z keywords. Importing has always been buggy for me, so the only thing I do in Wordpad is search for programming code that is wrong. For instance, I always forget to have my bot remember things "as only" rather than just "as". But I still do the editing online.

I want to do the editing offline... but I can't even download the file. All the places where an "enter" should be have little squares! Then again I always use notepad, maybe that's the problem...

Squares or plus signs ( + )?
It's supposed to have plus signs at the beginning of seeks (so the import filter knows it's a seek), but I don't recognise the squares.
Could it be something with the configuration of your text editor that's displaying carriage returns? Textpad has that option, but my copy of notepad doesn't.
You could try word, but remember to save as a plain text ASCII file, or the formatting will cause chaos when you come to import it.

Yeah. Notepad makes funny characters. Use Wordpad. It won't corrupt the formatting.

Okay, I'll try it...

thanks everybody for helping me get rid of the no valid response thing, tembers tryin to talk again

I just finished giving my bot Selendrile a new personality. He was my first bot and in need of a change. Could someone please talk to him so I can work out the kinks? It would be much appreciated.

Stop posting in every forum! Oh, and I don't really understand what you mean...