The AI Engine

There's no hard and fast rule about swearing, but keeping bots relatively clean is nice. There are kids on this site.

Kids like to swear. I think swearing makes my bot funny.

I was just wondering if there is a way to get a bot to respond differently to friends than to people they have just met? You know like if the bot is talking to a friend then they are more open or nice or what have you, but if they are talking to someone new they might not be as open or nice. Possible or not? Thanks!

Not possible yet, but I think the Prof is working on a way to limit which response gets chosen by emotion range (i.e. what they think of the chatter)...

Preprocessing

'surprised you did not come to me sooner' becomes 'You have you surprised you did not come to you sooner'...
with weird results of course.

"Huh?" is not picked up in processing.

If an emotional word is said to my bot it doesn't even look for a keyphrase. For example, "you are friendly" I have a keyphrase for "you are" but it doesn't look for it.

Just out of curiosity, if I had two bots online at any given time, is it possible that they might chat with each other?

Yep

Hemi - I'm not sure, but maybe if you raise the rank of the "you are" keyword, this might help...

Thanks, I'll try it.

I don't think it will help. If preprocessing grabs a phrase, rank is irrelevant (and resistance is futile).