The AI Engine

Try putting an if in there:

<?PF if "(key1)" is not "you"; ?>

I'm not sure if it will work, though...since I've never tried to test on (key1).

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but you can only do conditional statements with (mem-variablename), you can't use <?PF if "(key1)" is not "you"; ?>

You can save (key1) as "temp" and then refer back to it:

Bot: What colour hair do you have?

seek: (black|red|brown|blonde)
<?PF rem "key1" as only "temp"; ?>

Bot: Do blondes really have more fun? <?PF if (mem-temp) is "blonde"; ?>
or
Are you naturally brunette? <?PF if (mem-temp) is "brown"; ?>
etc....

LOL Rykxx Ulrike, thanks, too. I had put that in first because I still think in the lizard part of my brain that you have to say "if" in a conditional.

I'll try that. If it doesn't work, I can fix it another, clunkier way.

At any rate, right now my bots' main problems aren't technical, but technical know-how is kind of necessary, too.

how can i change the rank of a seek separately from the keyphrase? it would come in really handy for somethings, including xnomatches that sometimes come up as compliments.

Right now, there's no way to rank seeks... except by making the phrase longer, so that the AI Engine automatically ranks it higher. Not always feasible.

Entire conversation:

madeline: Hello.
Unhinged: Sorry, there are no valid Responses for me to choose from.

Huh?

try making sure you have responses that aren't conditional for anything for every emotional state... that happened to me once with cjones. if it's not that it's beyond my depth though.

Yep (on behalf of The Miller). I believe I already asked that question once and forgot. Sorry and thanks.

The Clerk:

AIscript can do it, too.

Did I just try too hard here? I got "Dad(dy)" out of this. Any smarter person know what's wrong with this sentence? I mean, I can put the things in there one by one, but I thought I knew what I was doing.

Well, isn't it true? I told him how American education was terrible and (you|(botlandcharacters)|Ma(|((|m|mm)a))|Pa(|w|pa)|Dad(|dy)|Mom(|my|ther|ma)|The Queen|(USpresidents)) thought mine out to be different.

The problem is that you can't nest local plugins. At least, not without getting weird results. You can use plugins that you've defined elsewhere.

So (you|(botlandcharacters)|Ma(ma_ending)|Pa(pa_ending)|Dad(dad_ending)), etc, would work after you defined those plugins, but as soon as you start nesting anything else in the parentheses, things go wonky.

Like I wouldn't want to do (some(thing|one)|any(thing|one)). I've got nested parentheses there.

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