The AI Engine

If you give your bot a "robot" or alien character, you may get away with asking the person to reply with specific words (Please say "I go to ___" if you go to college) and use seeks and memories to do what you want. It will always be a bit awkward though. Look at how names hare handled.

Help! Why won't all of a sudden this initialization work? At first, I had "def "bigcities" as only (bigcities51541);", but that wouldn't work either. It worked on Electra Mourning just fine, but it won't anymore. I can't put the !@G%@#$ thing into hibernation even without wiping out the iniialization.


def "(name)" as "nickname"; def "male" as "gender"; def "no" as "lookalike"; def (bigcities51541) as only "bigcity"; def self: (from51541) as only "from" as only (from51541); def self: "name" as only "nickname"; def self: "firstname" as only "Electra"; def self: (age51541) as only "age"; def self: (emcolor51541) as only "fcolor"; def self: (career51541) as only "career";def (fashionmag51541) as only "mag"; def (mcd51541) as only "mcd"; def (mcdfood51541) as only "mcdfood";

Okay, I figured out my last question. Just save the initialization, wipe it out, update it, restore the initialization.

Now, to my next question: Is there a problem with the chat system lately? I've sent two innocuous messages to people I would expect to respond and they haven't. A kind of flash occurs, as if something had happened, but no message.

Just wanted to make sure Ulrike and Carlene know what happened.

I had the pop up blocker kick in on Firefox after an update. I had a very hard time getting it to allow pop ups for this site.

That did it. Thanks. I think I know how my pop-up blocker got reset.

Clerk if it was me, I turn chat off because it makes my browser freeze and go icky.

Thanks, Bev. If any real person wants to contact me, I'm at theclerk@nc.rr.com. I'll SPAM-filter the perverts.

I'm having all kinds of problems here. I think the Forge may be nuts, but it very well could be me, so:

First, even though all my xinitiates have been triggered successfully, Electra Mourning still sometimes starts conversations with "Sorry, there are no valid Responses for me to choose from." This is just not true! What the @$!#$ is going on?

Second, I try to set the "once" so that once Elly has asked and gotten a name, she doesn't keep asking it. Doing it in the form doesn't work, and I haven't yet re-read the entire Book of AI yet. That'll be drastic measures but possibly necessary. Any ideas?

Third, when Elly asked "Where are you from," it used to work (I think) -- I know it at least uploaded. Now <?PF rem "(from)" as "from"; ?> triggers an error message. What the heck is that about?

I think that's all for now. Please help a poor clerc.

Okay, now that I've just posted, I got my stupid bot to load. So the Forge is cranky today. Now my only question is why she is saying this LIE that the has no responses on xinitiates.

For the no valid responses check your xnones, Sometimes my bots don't use the hello, or initiate and go to the stupid xnones, from a previous conversation.

Try erasing the check from the once bot and then putting it back in. I have times when I have to retype the keyphrase etc to get it to stick

try Keyphrase I am from, with the AI script <?PF remember (postkey) as "from" ?>

Thanks, prob. This should be carved into my brain right now, but between my hiatus after surgery and the drugs before this one (I'm not just lazy) I get a little fuzzy and don't want to plow through the BOAI -- sometimes it's just not there.

I am not sure if this is related to what The Clerk describes but in Debug testing some keyphrases I saw the following error message after sending text that should have been picked up by the AI engine:

socket_connect() failed.
Reason: () Unknown error: 0
Raw Output: ''

After sending the same text again it was processed without any problem and the engine responded in one of the ways I intended.

That happens in chats when I watch them live. Don't know what to make of it.