The AI Engine

Can someone explain xfavorite to me a bit more clearly than the Book of AI? How do you use (type) and (specific), exactly within xfavorite... it seems like if someone says "what's your favorite food?" then type is food... but how do I take that knowledge into xfavorite, if I wan't to specify a favorite? (i.e. My favorite food is lasagna.) I'd like to set it up so those "favs" I wish to specify can be specificly chosen by me, and anything else can be randomized, or something... anyhow. I'm rambling, as usual. Any input on this?

Oooooh I spells gud when I'm tyred.

I think that if you have a specific keyphrase "your favorite food" that the bot will choose those responses instead of the x-keyword's (you might have to mess about with the rank though, I'm not sure).
At that point to make it random you simply use a plugin (you can find these when you go to My Bots). You can either use one that is all ready there (I assume that there is one called (food)), or you can make your own. Then as your response you have something like "My favorite food is (favfood)" or something.

Someone a while back was talking about some way of making it easier to seperate out guest's conversations in the transcripts. Couldn't it be set so that when a guest first goes to the chat page they are asked to give a screen name? That way the threads could be untangled, the bots could refer to them by name, and perhaps the maker could even tell who it is that is talking to their bot. Then we'd have to see if the bot should remember that screen name, and use it's memory functions, or erase it so that confusion is not caused when someone else decides to log on with that name.
This way we remove all the confusion involving cookies and everything else that was bothering us before.

Is artium magister a swear?

I think it'd be sufficient if it just labeled them as "Guest1" and such, and reset the # of guests each day when the server resets. Providing there's a way of tracking how many guests have talked to each bot.

Usually though it's easy enough in the transcript to tell which conversation is which

Which is this?

This is which?

Shadyman,
AT last I have met my intellectual equal and you are it. Is this heaven or hell?
Yours sincerely
Cheez

Mayhaps it is both, at the same time!

Isn't there any way that a bot could know that it was being fed an xgoodbye or whatever it is so that it could then say goodbye no matter what the other bot said? For instanse, if someone programs their bot to say "l8ter" or "gotta be off" or something, the bot doesn't pick up the fact that it is being told goodbye, and so just says something in response to that, and then the conversation gets cut off. It would be good it the bot would always say their xgoodbyes in response to someone elses xgoodbyes.