The AI Engine

Ok. Well, a sample of the (adj) (animal) problem.

Me: happy dog
Bot: (some random xnone response, and sometimes an xpositive I think)

I've tried other animals and adjectives too, none work though. I also have an (animal) keyphrase, but that never gets used either.

It would really be nice to have the option to use <?PF express ?> in keyphrases, so it applies to all responses in that keyphrase, except for the ones that have their own <?PF express ?>

For example, we could have:
"You are [5,0] <?PF express: amused; ?>"
and for every response, it would emote "amused".

If I had one response in the keyphrase "You are" that had a <?PF express: evil; ?>, then the evil emote would take priority over the amused emote.

lili- I think there's something happening in pre-processing. The AI engine has a sentence fragment completer that adds the "missing" words to the incomplete sentence said to your bot- this happens before attempting to match it to your keyphrases. If you say "happy dog" to your bot, she may receive it as "you are a happy dog", which is what I might think, too, if someone just walked up and said that to me lol

You could try lowering your "you are" keyphrase rank, if you have it ranked (but i doubt that's it), or try saying the words that will match "(adj) (animal)" in context, like "There's a furry weasel!" or something, to prevent words from being added to complete the fragment.

Lili- I tried out your (adj) (animal) keyphrase on my bot. I had the same problem you did. I think (animal) is a special plug-in like (name) or (dayofweek) that will insert an appropriate work in a response, but you can't use it as a searching tool in a keyphrase.

I recommend creating your own plug-in for animals, or use one of the existing ones. (animals), for instance, includes plural animals like "dogs" or "cats". (I tested it in a keyphrase and it works just fine. ) There are others too, but if you want something all encompassing, I'd go ahead and create your own.

Dingdingding! That's right! I checked my keyphrase for animals, and I had used (animals) with an "s" as the plug-in. yay!

Yay! Thanks so much! *runs to fix bot*

Why is this always being seen as an insult?

Eric Badu-Badu: Crossing the river, of fear and pride.
Kaliri: That was mean.

I get that all the time, both with xcompliment and xinsult.

joe chaos: hello there mate!
Pete Puma: Oh yeah? Well I hope you get hit by a bus!

lol, maybe he sees mate as a command

Yeah, sometimes what the bot considers a compliment and an insult is just messed. Someone said they liked orange flowers once, and my bot thought it was a compliment. Maybe my bot thinks it's an orange flower.

The word "like" is probably the biggest cause of the xcompliment problems. If "like (you|your)" was perceived as positive rather than just the word "like", I bet most of the false compliment readings would disappear.

Pete Puma: Do you like to golf?
revscrj: Like the bubonic plague.
Pete Puma: Why thank you!

Yeah...that would definitely get rid of a lot of mistakes. I think xkeyphrases should all have lowest priority, because often they just cause mistakes. I find xnone comes up way too often, but really all of them should be really low.