Newcomers

I'll get there - I'll probably do that before Personality, but it'll be a couple of months at least till it's finished. I was agreeably surprised how much info there is in the Newcomers 'back issues' - the signal to noise ratio is rather higher than I'd expected (albeit there is unavoidably much repetition,) which augurs well for the more advanced topics to be found elsewhere.

Hi. How do you get the bots to remember names of the person/bot they're chatting with? I don't really understand how to use xMemory and (mem-youare). I read in the book of AI that using the keyphrase 'I am' would make the bot automatically store the name. I tried but it's not working.

Well, I do it this way.

In BJ's default settings, I have a line:
default "(name)" as "nickname";

and then I have keyphrases like:
my name is

and in the AIScript box for this keyphrase:
remember (postkey) as only "nickname"

And in response to the keyphrase "what is my name?":
Your name is (mem-nickname). Had you forgotten?

That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask: is there any way of doing partial string match on memories? Sort of simple regex in AIScipt. In particular I'd like Max to respond differently to guests. Any way of doing something like:

<?PF if (mem-nickname) matches "guest*"; ?>

Conceivably <?PF if (mem-nickname) is "guest([1234567890]+)"; ?> might do it, but I wouldn't put money on it.

Hmm. You could always try putting all possible guest names in a plugin (guest1, guest2... guest999) and then <?PF if (mem-nickname) is "(guestpluginname)"; ?>
I still wouldn't put money on it, but I think it would be more likely to work.

Thanks psimagus, it worked. One little problem though. How do I avoid the spellcheck if the name was typed in lowercase? During the debugging, it changed my name from bea to bead. lol

Although this might be a little technical (it's a double iframe), it is possible to determine whether a user is a guest or not, and save it back to a memory.

This way you could respond to a guest with this AIScript:
<?PF if "guest" is "yes"; ?> or <?PF if (mem-guest) exists; ?> (depending on how you set it up)

Unfortunately, this only works with non-flash bots. But if anyone is interested, just IM me.

trevorm: <?PF if (mem-nickname) is "(guestpluginname)"; ?> might actually work for a flash bot. More manual labor, but it could work.

r41334t:
How do I avoid the spellcheck if the name was typed in lowercase?

type raw in the AI Script box, and it will bypass the spell-correction.

trevorm:
<?PF if (mem-nickname) is "(guestpluginname)"; ?> might actually work for a flash bot. More manual labor, but it could work.

If it does work, you can make yourself eternally popular by making it a shared plugin, and saving the need for everyone else to duplicate the labour

Would anyone care to test my robot for me so I can see how far it gets before it stops making sense?

Here is the link:

http://www.personalityforge.com/directchat.php?BotID=41748&MID=41746

Thanks.

I thought I had understood the book of AI in this respect, but something isn't working for me.

I have a keyphrase: "(asl|a/s/l)" which I thought would match either: "asl" or "a/s/l" but it never hits this when I input either. What should I do?

I would try putting "raw" in the AIscript box and see if that fixes it. I've never tried to code for that, so I don't know for sure it will work.

I have a keyphrase: "(asl|a/s/l)" which I thought would match either: "asl" or "a/s/l" but it never hits this when I input either. What should I do?

To catch the backslashes, you'll have to make it a raw mode regex (and possibly escape them with spaces and/or forward slashes.) If (asl|a[/]s[/]l) (re) or (asl|a[ /]s[ /]l) (re) don't work, try adding a slash in the opposite direction before each backslash (still inside the square brackets.) I haven't coded for slashes myself, but this approach works for !?^$+- etc.