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how many keyphrases do I need for my bot to stop being a newborn?

And if you don't have a rank at all I don't think it will pick up at all. Not sure though- never ranked anything at Zero before.

You can set a rank to zero, or even a minus number. The permissible range is (I believe) -127 to 127 (but anything below minus 20 or so will never ever get picked up.)

I tend to default to rank zero unless I find other stuff overriding it, or find it coming up too often. And [-127,127] do seem to be the limits. Whenever I've tried to put a larger value in, it's always defaulted to 127.

how do you get your bot to meet other bots?

The more you work on your bot, the more conversations with other bots and humans he'll have.

Hi. I'm having problems with my bot remembering names. Sure I know all about the (name) command. But what if someone asks my bot to remember a particular name. I tried putting <?PF remember (key1) as "yourname"; ?> in the AI script but then when I type Your name is (mem-yourname)I get "Your name is key1." as a response. What am I doing wrong?

click your settings and in the ai script box put
<?PF default (name) as "name"; ?>
then make a key phrase that will pick up the name, like 'my name is' ..in the ai box for the keyphrase, put
<?PF rem (postkey) as only "name"; ?>
Now always use (mem-name) to bring up the name.
It could be that you left out the ()s in your script.

Expanding on prob123's comment about ()s: This is a silly question but are you sure you don't have
remember "key1" as "yourname";
It seems obvious but I've done it more times than I care to admit!

I usually don't forget the parentheses, but I have been known to type things like "(kety1)".

I just did that yesterday.
prob123: tell me another old saying
Bildgesmythe: key1 Is a trusted oldie.

and I am great for just putting in (key) or )postkey). I have found that mispelling a keyphrase is worth hours of fun, especially if you have mispelled it so bad you can't find it search.

Don't have any questions yet, but I thought I should introduce myself. I've been working on a John Lennon bot. I encourage you all to stop by and say hello. He's feeling rather lonely.

Okay, now I have a question. When viewing a bots memories a button is available labeled "Alter Memories". What is this button supposed to do? Mine doesn't do anything.

If no memories exist, it won't do anything.

If a memory exists, it should allow you to go in and clean it up. Sometimes extraneous words get stored, sometimes stuff that you don't WANT your bot to remember gets stored.