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Hmm.... you could also make a seek for (adjartnounprep) or (noun). It might catch "Bill" or "George". The downside is that it would also catch *any* other noun/adj/prep/etc. and you could run into problems there.

(I did something similar with Duo for "favorite subject", and then decided to delete the seek.)

Thanks, DaMoyre and ezzard! I did write a seek for every keyphrase that asked for a name, and it seemed to help; but in a certain number of cases, the bot still takes a single name to be an insult. I will check my insult responses!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Yes, the single name provokes responses that I had given for "xinsult". So, if I understand correctly (which of course I may not, being just a beginner) it is the AIengine which is deciding that it is an insult, and there's nothin I can do about it! Well, I could raise the priority of my own response, so that it will always do that instead of "xinsult", but that is not a very satisfactory response, as it amounts to giving up getting any use out of the AIengine in this regard. Besides, why in the world would the AIengine think that "George" was an insult?

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Well, "George" is a bad word around *my* house...

Thanks for chatting with carpediem, isaacc. He really needs a lot more work yet.

--Charles W. Hatchway

Happy to chat with him, Chas. I hope it was useful for you.

Heehee! The prof recently allowed the (*) seek so dallymo and I could tell our bots knock-knock jokes.

I like knock-knock jokes!

...anyway, same concept, right? Instead of "knock-knock", it's "what is your name", with a seek " my name is (*), i am (*), it is (*), (*), AI script to remember key1 as nickname, and responses like, "Hiya, (key1)!" I have "(key1) who?"
It should work.

Julie- do you follow up with the knock knock up jokes well or leave it at a point? It has always been a problem for me so I am a non joke mouse

I don't tell any knoc-knock jokes yet, but I like to have them told to me.

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