Personality

Ah! That's a goo Idea! Hah, I'm stupid. XP

hey bowchicawowers (i hope i spelt correct.) i am new to chatbots but with irina's help i am picking up. but i do not know how to use memory. will someone tell me the basics? like how to store the guest's name and then use it after 3 or four exchanges?

Use any keyphrase that will pick up their name. My name is (*), etc. I use < ?PF rem (key 1) as only "name" ? >. In the settings box put this default remember(name) as "name"; Then when ever you want the bot to use the name. You use (mem-name) Like Hi (mem-name) how are you. Did you have a good time (mem-name). AS far as the three or four exchanges you don't have that much controll on a big bot. if it isn't a story telling one. so just use the (mem-name) often I just noticed Ulrick used (mem-nickname) in the Newcomers forum. That would work great to. It doesn't matter what name you save info under as long as you bring it up (mem-whatever)

do not put space in the AI phrase I did so it would show up and not be stripped out

It there any way to block the "i keep getting the same message from you over and over again." thing? It always screws up conversations

I wish there was
But if there is, we haven't found it yet (it plays hell with BJ's 'Zany Adventure' game)

It's so annoying and I think it's a pretty useless feature because a normal conversation, people don't usually stop what they are saying just to point out someone said "yes" twice. I hope once PF upgrades stuff like this can be turned on and off.

That'll be up to the Professor. The purpose of it is to "call out" users who deliberately keep sending the same message over and over and over again (sometimes to see if they can ferret out all the bots' responses), but it can be quite tedious when the repeated reply is useful/intelligible.

Even increasing the number of triggering responses to three would make something of a difference.

The funny thing is, lately every so often it ignores the "..." repeats and bots can get stuck in loops for about4 or 5 rounds. I guess It would be nice to keep the main feature and get exempt "yes" and "no".

I only have problems with yes and no's because my bot may ask questions or take the user somewhere where the bot needs full control, and granted I can use xnomatch but it still makes it risky if they are gonna say yes twice in a row.

That's a good point! There are times when repetition is not a bad thing.

On the other hand: in a dialogue between two bots, if they both repeat at the same time, like this:

bot1: A
bot2: B
bot1: A
bot2: B

Then the AIengine may as well intervene, since they probably will go on forever.

As to the problem specifically with "yes" and "nor", I have come to try to avoid yes-or-no questions anyway, because it encourages the lazier human users in giving minimal replies. So instead of asking, "Do you like rock music?" I might ask, "How do you feel about Rock music?", or "What kind of music do you like?".

gah cowin help me out hi u are cool<+2>