Bug Stomp

Crab- I considered hooking the Rank up to the Context, but it would make the system slower. Right now it scrolls through all the Keywords, looking for matches. Change that to Contexts, and there's a lot more to scroll through.

But your problem shouldnt happen since longer contexts are chosen before shorter ones... And because synonyms work only with Keywords right now. Email me the Bot having this problem and I'll debug it.

Ender- there is a randomness in the response time, but I want to keep it low, as to not drop the train of thought. If Gaia didnt respond for a minute, then someone might think something is wrong.. dont you think?

Error Diagnostic Information
Parameter 2 of function ListGetAt which is now "0" must be a positive integer

The error occurred while evaluating the expression:

reasmb = Replace(ListGetAt(these_reasmbs,RandNum),"imacomma",",","ALL")



The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFSET), occupying document position (948:6) to (948:84).


Date/Time: 07/05/01 04:31:15
Browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
Remote Address: 141.155.145.213
HTTP Referer: http://www.personalityforge.com/botland/popups/message.cfm?MessengerID= 17975
Template: d:\webserver\personalityforge.com\www\botland\elipse\chat.cfm
Query String: UserInput=And%20I%27m%20one%20of%20 them%2E%2E%2E&source=chatmessage&UserID= 783&CFID=119651&CFTOKEN=35540836

ya but it still needs to be longer, not say a min but more like up to 15 seconds and such. Also is there a time for typeing. It takes time to type as we as time to read the message, and then some one mihgt not reply right a way.

So this:

juliet: sweet sweet gizzle. I find you quite endearing
Gizzle: Well, I find you too.

could be solved in the engine. It's context "I * you". Can't there be a (subj2)? Or does anyone have a slick way of avoiding this problem in the first place?

Does the ngine understand "let's" is a contraction of "let us"?

Yes, "let's" is automatically changed to "let us" as are all contractions, so make sure your context has "let us".

I could create a (subj2), certainly. But we'd have to figure some way to tell between statements like "I like you a lot" and "I find you offensive". (subj) will find a verb and (subj2) will find an adverb or adjective, both which should be treated differently. Hmm.. How to do this?

Well, I was just thinking of subj and subj2 as being context-defined. Like normally (subj) is whatever comes after the context, except when you insert a * in the context. So I would say the ideal is to have it still keep whatever comes after the context as (subjx) where x = the number of *'s embedded in the context. See what I mean?

Also, for some reason Gizz doesn't seem to pick up let's. It's under keyword "let", context "let us". That's why I was asking. I'll try ranking it up and see if it can be fixed that way.

Nope, even with a rank of 10 "let's" is ignored.

I'll look into that. *time passes* Okay, it should work now. I thought I had put that in there but for some reason it wasnt there.

I've done some work this evening. Gaia was playing the "Goodbye Game" where it was saying goodbye a lot but not actually leaving. That's fixed now so you can actually have a longer conversation with it.

I also did some work towards preventing double-messages from coming up and the occasional "Owls" error from appearing. The right navigation should be more consistently there, too. Let me know how it's working for you.

Sorry to be the first to tell you, but *all* the bots play the goodbye game -- that is, they'll always continue the conversation if you reply to their "bye".

how 'bout some sort of article inclusion so that if I call (noun) in a sentence like "I could buy a car" the appropriate article would be encompassed in (noun) [a car] instead of risking something like "I could buy an car"

Professor, theres a real problem at the moment with my bot. A bad case of 'multiple personality disorder', it seems. She is stealing other bots lines quite often and it's been like this for the last week or so. What's going on with this?!