The AI Engine

Similar to Patricia, I have on occasion created a really unlikely keyphrase to hide a really big web of seeks I was trying to create but couldn't do all at once. Then you create the real keyphrase and tell it to go to the unlikely one. I use words that have absolutely no normal association so there's no chance of it being triggered until it was ready. I think for instance one of them was 'peroxide fondue'.

And hello to Onyxflame, good to see you back. I have to admit I am struggling with the exact same question you are, because while I have been regularly active on this site ever since I started, I haven't put any serious work into my bots in at least eighteen months. At this point I'm personally leaning towards starting over because it's hard to work out where to start working on changes to them in light of the massive changes to the AI engine in that time. I figure the new bot will let me start fresh and get my head around the new system so that eventually one day I'll have a better idea of what to do to my original bots. The alternative is to work on a less developed bot where the keyphrase/seek knot is less complicated and therefore easier to untie.

I use "zphrases" (zvaguefuture, zprecisefuture, etc.) for various sets of responses which I want other keyphrases to use. Of course I made them before you could list things in keyphrases, so their use is a little more limited now.

Well, I exported my bot with the intent of jumping in and working on her anyway, but after doing something I wanted to test in debug, the import errored. I might just make a new bot instead of getting up the guts to try a "normal" mode import on a 56k modem in hopes that I can tell what's wrong, heh. Problem is, I have no idea what I'd have a new bot be like...and I doubt it'd be as wacky as my current one.

Could someone PLEASE answer this. I'm losing my mind here. Is there a reason I can't use a goto statement as an xnone response? And is there a way to work around this? I wanted to add more than 40 xnone responses until my bot has more keyphrases, so I thought I'd use goto znone1 (etc.) as responses. Alas, this does not work.

Hi LapCat,
Strangely enough, Goto statements just don’t work in xnone.
I use responses, witch can be an introduction to the subject or simply some general Smalltalk - with most of the time only a xnomatch seek.
For example:

Let's talk about something else. <?PF if (mem-lover) is "no"; ?>
        + xnomatch [0]
        goto whateveryouwant topic

It’s a good idea to place a script after the response, as in my example, so the goto is only used in certain circumstances. Nothing prevents you from placing several lines with goto statements in the seeks.

Corwin, whaddya mean 'peroxide fondue' has no chance of occuring in a conversation?

Thanks, Patricia. That's a great way to steer the conversation where I'd like it to go. *runs off to reevaluate xnone responses.*

I eat peroxide fondue for breakfast whenever I can get it!

"With those long rods poking out of her platinum beehive, she looked like some sort of nightmare of peroxide fondue."

factory mutilates except assiduous melon island
cat platypus abuses then someone struggles

(Random poetry generator, anyone?)

(looks at above)Oh geeze, I need to add a lot of key phrases!
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Uhm, this may be better posted in Newcomers but Hell just flame me to death. I keep having a particular response chosen out of xnone disproportionately to all the others. Is there any way to give just a single response a minus ranking?

Yes, put a "1" there, at least it will only get used once, or give it a peculiar emotional value, highest or lowest

Theres a thought, cool thanks. No way to just tilt the odds though, eh?