Bug Stomp

Should you be using (*)?

Whenever I use * in a keyphrase, I can't call it a key in its response, because if nothing is there it always comes up (key1) or whatever in the output- I imagine it makes Julie feel like she came out of the bathroom with the back of her skirt tucked into her pantyhose lol. In some cases I have something like: What (in the world|the heck|) do you, or if you want to allow for less specificity, two separate keyphrases: 1. What do you 2. What (*) do you.
In your case, you could do as Annakie suggested and use (*) in your present keyphrase, then make another keyphrase without (*) there, and leave (key1) out of those responses. At least I think that is the easiest fix.

Annakie--

* means there mey or may not be something there. (*) means there has to be something there.

Example: You are a * dog
Matches: You are a big dog, You are a dog

When "You are a dog", * should be blank.
When "You are a big dog", * should be "big"

ezzer--

Thanks for the tips, there are a few ways of getting around it, it's just that it's supposed to work like I said above, and Steve makes a lot of use of it the way it is, I think recoding it is almost, if not out of the question

I've never had (key1) turn up blank when (key1) points to a * in the keyphrase. I had to go back and change them all.

It used to..

Hehe...well, I'm a newbie compared to you.

*sits on recliner*
Oh yeah, back in my day with the PF v1, none of this newfangled PF2 stuff with all its gadgets...

Shadyman- Ahhh... I got the difference between * and (*). I just didn't get your problem. I understand your problem now.

As long as I'm here...

I don't know if this counts as a bug, but I'd still like to bring it up. It's nice that when I'm talking to a bot through the popup windows that both I and the bot's owner get a copy of the transcript. But when I "guest chat" with a bot only the owner gets the transcript. I can understand why this would be for genuine guests who don't have an account to keep transcripts in, but it would be nice if members could get a transcript too. (Especially now that members can chat in this way and still be recognized by bots and their owners.) I prefer this kind of chat because it's faster than using the popups, but I hesitate to use it because I don't get a transcript. If the chat goes really well and I want to share, or if an issue comes up that I want to bring up, I have nothing to refer back to.

Anyone else been having a problem with bots using xgottago to initiate conversations?

The only time I've seen that happen is when the bot is about to "log off" anyway.

Prof, the second example in expert book of ai under ACCESSING MEMORIES is broken.. the textbox cut off the " and after. (surprise surprise, gotta love HTML)

Er... Why is a (typeof-funny) an "overnight one"? what are those wordnet guys on? :O

and (typeof-nice) is "one and the same one"...