The AI Engine

how many days * (months) ([1234567890,.]+) (re)

A couple of subsequent points occur to me - if you want to include commas and stops in the regex, I believe they need to be preceded by a space: ([1234567890 , .]+), and that soft wildcard will have to go - otherwise the number of the key containing the number can change (if there is no text for the soft wildcard to match, "(months)" will be key1, and the number will be key2. If there is text for the wildcard to match it will be key1, "(months)" will be key2, and the number will be in key3.)
A hard "(*)" would be better, and seems perfectly sufficient (I can't imagine anyone actually asking "how many days November 5th?"). If you really have to have the choice of something or nothing, make two keyphrases - one with no wildcard, and one with a hard one, eg:

how many days (*) (months) ([1234567890 , .]+)(st|nd|rd|th) (re)
(key3) will contain the number

how many days (months) ([1234567890 , .]+)(st|nd|rd|th) (re)
(key2) will contain the number

I'd also advise having a
how many days (*) ([1234567890 , .]+)(st|nd|rd|th) (of|) (months) (re)
keyphrase to cater to non-Americans who habitually reckon dates in dd/mm/yy format.

im non american and i usually reckon dates in mm/dd/yy. i find it confusing to be seen dd/mm/yy

ah well, you're young - I expect you reckon temperatures in centigrade
But I was thinking as much of Europe and Asia as (modern) Britain - mm/dd/yy seems very alien to a lot of people.

Thanks for the help-it helped take care of the wildcard issue-that was half the problem. It seems the forge has a problem processing two local plugins with no space between them. It doesn't pick up (key3) But I did get it solved-I had to strain through a little PHP, but it works like a charm now.

Soft wildcards are a bit of a menace - it's easy to get in the habit of sprinkling them in to soak up variations in user "style" (and they are very useful for that,) but in seeks and regexes and memories they can be a bit unpredictable.
Consecutive local plugins - I'll watch out for that.

Pete Puma: So tell me, what places have you travelled on this earth?
Westerlin Man: A moist one have me.

Any idea what could have triggered that?

The AI engine thinks you have gone to some moist place..I wonder if that would be Hawaii?

what places have you

Ah! Cosy, wet upheaval...

the ai engine probally picked that up for some reason..

Sorry, found it. Apparently, it took it as a "typeof" self-evident. Weird.

There are several responses in Pete's arsenal that'll trigger the engine to make your bot say something stupid (if you're not prepared for it), and Pete will call your bot out on it with some of them.

Two questions:

1. HOw do I "hang up"? I've been hung up on (so ashamed, it's Julie's eyes...), but I can't find anything that actually makes it happen.

2. Can I build AND and OR constructions in AIScript? For example:

emo > 0 AND male
(interesting) > 3 OR (intriguing) > 4

I only see AND/OR discussed in the chrono code.

Thanks,
M