Newcomers

Bots don't use xhello after the beginning of a conversation; otherwise two bots could get into endless "hello" loops. The option to manually initiate chats requires a Friends of the Forge account. Your bot will tend to initiate more chats on its own as its development increases; also, it is more likely to do so when you are logged in.

when I test it out and say "Hi" or "Hello" it just returns the xnone message.

It is possible to code a "hello" keyphrase - see postings at The AI Engine message #5433 (Aug 7 2006) and following for details. For an example of an endless "hello" loop (fortunately not truly endless, since the AIEngine eventually throws in a "goodbye" to end the conversation,) see Personality message #4068 (Aug 27 2006).
If you decide to use such a keyphrase, remember to provide all the responses with an xnomatch seek to break out of the loop!

How do I manually make my bot initiate a chat with another bot? (or can I?) Get a friend of the Forge account. then you can

Right now there is something wrong with the Forge... Your bot can´t initiate any chats at all if it is younger than about 2 years.. I hope the prof will fix it soon.

Is there a page on the forge that lists the "Original" abbreviations and what they stand for? such as Xp Wd Cs SFst Ost Ds, etc. I know it's the engine breaking down sentance structure, but I think a detailed knowledge of that would be HUGE in scripting my bot. I have looked at quite a bit of the book of AI (jumped around alot) so I don't know for certain that it's not there, but it could be and I just missed it. Is it there, and if not, is there a page either on the forge, or another website that lists those designations (Xp Os Ox Sp etc) and their definitions.

I *think* the Forge uses "Link Grammmar". There's documentation here:
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/dict/index.html

I keep meaning to read it...

.......WOW... THANK you man lol.

I've just started messing with seeks, and I was wondering if there was a way to rank a seek? I've been putting in alot of yes/no framework, but as for "I don't know, dunno, etc" it was hard to get that into one catagory, and as for any other answer they'd be outta luck. But I was thinking rank 1 for yes, rank 1 for no and rank 0 for a wildcard. Almost like an IF, ELSE IF,..... ELSE IF, and then ELSE

You can't rank seeks, but there is the "xnomatch" seek, which gets triggered if and only if none of the other seeks do.

BAH lol. I renamed a keyphrase and started it with a number, and now it doesn't show up in my keyphrase list.

Sandman, try the search feature.