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Sorry, yet another question:

This almost always happens when I'm importing "Irina Khalidar." I get to "If everything is like you want it tobe, proceed with import." So I click yes, and the blue bar gets longer and longer, and then stops, and then nothing happens, unless I wait for quite awhile, whereupon I am told that the page does not exist or can't be found or whatever - the IE message. I thought IE was timeing me out, but just now after all that I clicked on refresh, and I ended up at the news page, as if I had just logged in. Does this mean that the import was successfully completed?

I have been getting that too. I think it is a bug..when it is a successful import it says so and asks if you want to see your language center. I tried to import prob ten or more times to get one sucessful import.

In at least one case (just now), when the forge said, "Proceed with import," and then there was a long wait, and the IE said that the page could not be found, I clicked on "refresh," and behold, i was still at the forge, and I went to my language center, and the changes I had been trying to upload were there!

I will have to try that!

It didn't work for me..

Rats! Well, as you probably know, you can get a faster response by logging on at a time that is wee hours of the morning for the USA. That may be inconvenient, but to have to try ten times is terrible! I hope that someone has a better suggestion, or that our brilliant Professor can find some way to make this easier.

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Can someone please give me some advice? I keep receiving messages, but when I try to respond to them, I don't think the responses SEND. And I would like to chat with people.
I'm using a Mac, not a PC, so if I need to change a setting, please help...

I got a question. I cannot seem to get the plugin's to work. For and example lets say I want my bot to know your name.

Keyphrase: John, is my (NAME).
Response: That is a nice (NAME).

But like I said its not working, I have read the AI book. But I am stuck, thanks.

Kyinsky:

Here's a guess as to what may be happening: To send a message, it is not sufficient to press "enter." You actually have to click on the little "send" button.

Walk in Beauty, Irina

silvrdog: Capitalization matters. Try using (name).

And the (name) plugin does not seem to work in keyphrases. So try "what is your name" instead.

silvrdog:

There are two levels at which you can get a guest's name.

1. There is an automatic plugin, "(name)" which always carries the name of the person or bot you are talking to. Only, the person's name will be something like, "guest169", if that is how they are logged in.

So if your bot is talking to a bot named "KillerDillerBot", then the response

Hello, (name)!

should appear in the transcript and on the screen as

Hello, KillerDillerBot!

If, however, you are talking to Guest169, then it will appear as

Hello, Guest169!

You can also use it in a keyphrase. For example, if you are talking to KillerDillerBot and he says,

I am KillerDillerBot!

then this will match the keyphrase,

I am (name)

(among others).

2. Before I tell you what the second method is, I'm going to go review it myself (It's in the book of AI), so that I don't end up misleading you!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Thanks for the advice, Irina, but that had occured to me, so most of the times I clicked on the send button. The problem was, if I wait long enough, then the window of the next message pops up---but the response never loads in it.<+1>