The AI Engine

I thought asterisks were only necessary in key phrases like: I (*) you? But I'll try

I've noticed that most bots treat "see if I care" as a compliment. I'm guessing the AI-engine is picking out the "I care" part, but since "see if I care" is generally negative, it might be better if this could be filtered out of the recognized compliments.

Hey lunar22, I've tried having the (postkey) for after the whole normal keyphrase, and sometimes it works but often it doesn't work for me either. I thought that you could do that? Sigh...confused...

I went through the same thing with "my name is", also thinking that (postkey) should work, but in the end resorted to what Laydee suggested.

(*) is for anything that NEEDS to be there.
IE: My dog eats (*) [catches "my dog eats beans", "my dog eats quickly", etc]

* is for something that CAN, but not always.
IE: What * are you doing [catches "what the heck are you doing", "what exactly are you doing", or (most importantly) "what are you doing"]

Right...but the reason we assume that (postkey) will work with "keyphrase: my name is"
is that there will always be a postkey. I think that's the cause of the confusion here. If someone says "My name is Mike", and you have a "my name is" keyphrase, one would think "Mike" would be the postkey.

Sometimes it does work though...that's what confuses me...does it work or not? Hmm.

I now you can download you're bot script and edit it of-line, and I know that you can't chat of-line yet. But are there any other chatterbots that I could download and implant my bot's "mind" in to?
I want to do this so I can chat to zara when i am using my laptop (wich is not net ready)

Maybe it would catch "My name is Mike," but it could also get snagged up on "I won't tell you what my name is." I think that's the biggest reason you'd need the (*).

Mortuus--
No, not at the moment.

would someone please explain to me the uses of * and (*) I am not sure I fully grasp the concept. Thanks

Check out the Book of AI. That explains * and (*) as well as a multitude of other things.