The AI Engine

How does conditional AI Script work in gossip? If I put in [if (mem-nickname) is "kudzu"] in an xgossip response, will it check the nickname for the person/bot being spoken to or gossiped about?

I believe so. I use mem-xxxwhatever in gossip convos and they seem to relate to the person being talked about.

Wowbagger: Promise me you wont make the same mistake as I did. Take care when doing experiments!
writeoncaley: I will, I promise
Wowbagger: HANGUP

I'm confused: what did I say here to make him hang up?

Can memories be called up in places other than xmemory? For example, if my bot asks someone a question, can she then tell the person some answer someone else has said before?

You can use self-memories that way, but you'd have to write the AI Script yourself.

Something like—
YourBot:What does X mean?
——Seek: X means (*) [?PF self: rem "(key1)" as "Xmeans"; ?]

I think that might work.

Oh, I mean, say I put a (self-whatever) in one of the seeks under an xnone expression so that they randomly come up as answers. They don't seem to come up, unfortunately. Is there anything to remedy that?

The first thing I'd check is whether or not the memories exist (check the self-memories list when you click on your bot's inner life). If they don't exist, they won't come up. If they do exist but aren't coming up... I'm not sure. *shrugs*

It seems like the engine tries to pick out what it thinks might be names. Anyone know if there's any way to put this to use? (I'm not, of course, talking about the (name) plugin).

Do bots not use xmemory and xgossip on Guests?

Bianca gossips about herself in xgossip using self-memories and it sounds really stupid. Is there any way to fix this?

How does a bot get on the "most liked" list?

I would like to create a keyphrase to catch action phrases between asterix such as:
*shrugs at how to do this*
Does anyone know how to make a literal asterix, perhaps using real expressions? Ideally, the keyphrase would be the real expression version of "* (*) *".