The AI Engine

There are a Polish bot, one that speaks French and one Spanish. You would have to use all keyphrases as regular expressions. I don't know how well it would work.

i have actually tested a number of keyphrases in Croatian, using both, the raw mode, and the regular expressions.
it didn't work with regular expressions, none of the keyphrases triggered an appropriate response. they all did well in raw mode, not even a question mark was a problem. still, i don't think there is a firm rule one could rely upon - experimentation is the key.

more serious issue i had in mind while responding to wengudu originally, was getting your bot integrated into the community, so to speak. other bots, and most human users, won't have a clue as to what a foreign language bot is saying, and no meaningful conversation would be possible. generated transcripts would be of virtually no use, too.

however, there is a way out of this situation, wengudu, if you're still here - all you need is a group of Thai speaking friends who are willing to chat with your bot on regular basis, logging on as guests, or opening their own Forge accounts. go for it!

Anybody want to clue us in on how you deal with "I'm Will," when the bot means "Please call me Will," "My name is Will," etc., other than to ask "Do you want to be called Will, then?" -- and can you keep it from going into the mem-youare variable, or do you have to edit the memories from inner life or whatever it's called?

Also, how do you know to suspect that an I'm x is a name rather than a genuine mem-youare, unless you've just asked a bot (or person) what his name is? Not that it's the most serious of my botbuilding problems, but I'm just wondering. (But that's not my name.)

Thanks.

All I can think of for guessing that "I'm x" is a name is checking if x begins with a capital letter. Can regular expressions be used for that?

You can use
I am (allnames),I am ((all-names))
remember (key1) as only "name"

I tried Bildgesmythe in debug and he picked it right up.
You: I'm will
Bot: Well, Will..It's great to meet you!

Thanks, Vashka and prob.

Both good ideas, Vashka's is hampered mainly by its reliance on proper capitalization (and I don't want my bot to read "I'm tired" as "My name is Tired"). Prob, good idea. I'd have to update the allnames, which is doable, sort of. It's got some exotic (to me) names in there but not mine. Maureen is fairly unusual (not usually on products with names on them, whereas Chris (my brother) is a cinch), but surely there are more Maureens walking around the English-speaking word than Gilbertos?

Thanks, though. The idea is great.

You can start a new plug in by coping and pasting the old, then making the changes and additions. Just rename it..like (betternames). The great idea of the name plug in is that it won't pick up I'm tired as a name. You just need a keyphrase for I am (*). So far I haven't had too many mistakes.

Yeah. That's what I'm planning to do. Thanks.

Is there any way for a bot to tell whether it's talking to a bot or a person? (Asking is tedious and people and bots lie.)

Clerk, i don't think a bot can tell whether it's talking to another bot or a human. also, as far as i know, one cannot do anything about it, as a bot maker, no workaround, a snippet of code...

having said that, the issue is solvable, but it would have to be arranged at the AI Engine level. the Engine can "read" all user profiles, bot and human ones, and a lot more. that's how bots know each other's name by default as soon as they make contact, without asking, without saying. they could, in principle, have default knowledge of any bit of info that Engine has an access to, including that of whether a profile is a bot one, a human, or a Guest visitor (presumably human).

How come I can't see the transcripts of my bot?

You may have to write the Professor.