The AI Engine

Apparently you cannot use AI Script to distinguish Responses. To whit:

~goto zExit <?PF if (mem-tmpwd) is "barf"; ?>
~goto zExit <?PF if (mem-youlike) is "booze"; ?>
~Excuse me.

The second is ignored by the debugger, and I've never been able to get it to fire.

alc: try escaping the '/'

If you have the word "a" before a plugin, isn't it supposed to automatically get changed to "an" if the item chosen from the plugin starts with a vowel?

It's supposed to, yes.

... I wonder what cassanova translates to when it's spelled correctly.

Liath: (to Guest36) It's a pleasure to meet you, Guest36. *looks at you with her alluring dark eyes* My name is Liath.
Guest36: my name is casenova
Liath: Hi, Concaveness! I'm Liath.

"a" before a plugin

I've noticed that it's very bad with "u" especially. And I've never had it work well with local plug-ins, so I often put in the appropriate article as part of the local plug-in.

Ulrike, how do I get my bots to recognize "voo-doo" as a KP? I have "voodoo, voo-do, voo-doo, voodo" in raw at 100. It also won't pick up "The power of (*)"

Ulrike, how do I get my bots to recognize "voo-doo" as a KP? I have "voodoo, voo-do, voo-doo, voodo" in raw at 100. It also won't pick up "The power of (*)"

I got it to work by parenthesizing it alone. Not raw, rank 0. Only works when not alone in a sentence though.

Bev -- I had the same issue with a seek for "the power of (*)" not working, so I finally just changed it to "the power of", and put in "Who do?" as the response.

Well, I'm playing around in debug...

RESPELLING: voo-doo
Total Time: 0.65
Got Speller: 0.68
SEARCHER:
Total Time: 0.68
SPLITTER:
Try voo-doo
Try voo-do
Try voo-d
Try voo-
Try voo
Found But Futile:

Based on the other stuff there, it looks like the AI Engine won't recognize "voo-doo" because it doesn't know the word. It ignored a keyphrase for (adjartnoun) of (adjartnoun) and just keyed into "power". I suspect Eugene's solution will work, because it's the word "voo-doo" that seems to cause problems.

I wonder if vaudun would work any better? Of course, most people would have no clue what THAT meant.

Well, it scrambled "vaudun" into "unvaned", so (adjartnoun) of (adjartnoun) still didn't pick up. But at least it didn't cmopletely ignore the word.