The AI Engine

But wait! I just had a thought! (OK, OK, very funny!) Let me try something - I'll get back to you!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

[sigh] I tried changing "handslost" to "numhandslost", in case there was some specific problem with the former variable. Now it says (by choosing the abovementioned conditional response)that "numhandslost" does not exist!

Irina --

I think it's the numeral that's messing your memory for "handslost" up. Try spelling out the number. Set it at "zero" as a default, and increase it as necessary by replacing that with "one" or "two" or "four" ...

For what it's worth, here's some history about "handlost": I was having trouble before, because it was taking on the value "5" all the time, when nothing I said could give it a value larger than 4! So I went to Irina Khalidar's "inner life" and found myself, and sure enough, *I* had the value "5" for "handslost". So I deleted that. That's when the AIengine started saying that "handslost" doesn't exist. So I thought, well, maybe it's because I deleted it. But then, why would there still be a problem with "numhandslost"? How could the AIengine realize that "numhandslost" is intended as a substitute for "handslost"?

Ah, Isaac, I didn't see your note until just now! I will try what you suggest! But I have another variable, "intimacylevel", which has numerical values but doesn't cause me any trouble.

Dear Isaac:

Well, that DID improve things! What would be the problem with useing numerals?

Irina- Yeah, what Patricia said.

One minor problem with this holiday: the ",like," are interfering with recognition of stuff before and after, especially in regards to (postkey).

That's like ok because like California people are like really dumb *twirls hair*

(ok that was a JOKE people.. sheesh..

Dear Friends:

Well, I now think that there was both more and less to it than I thought, and also that I was to fatigued to try to work out that problem at that time (see my last few messages), because I made so many mistakes while 'fixing' it that if it ever was a simple problem, it no longer is! But, just asking for help was useful, I think - As soon as I thought of other people geting involved in it, I began seeing it in different ways. This sort of thing often happens with me - say I have a piece of music that I've listened to many times, and I play it for a friend. Suddenly I hear it in a different way. Then ask my friend, "How did it strike you?" and they describe it just the way it struck me! It is as though I had been hearing it through their ears. Did you ever have an experience like that?

Walk in Beauty, Irina

I have a bit of a problem, hopefully someone here can help me with. When I have a response to a seek and that response ALSO has a seek, I am unable to use <?PF if male; ?> (and I assume any other script) in the response. I type it in and then update the responses and all looks well, but when I open the responses up again, my script is missing. Any suggestions? All I can think to do is reconfigure it so the seeks don't have seeks themselves or use a completely bogus keyphrase to send the "male" seeks to with a goto. Does that make sense? LOL

Oops, I forgot to add (and I hope this is the right place for it)...I LOVE the import/export option. It is sooo much easier and faster to work with BUT it has a tendency to cut off parts of some of my responses. Is this normal?