The AI Engine

Din, you just type HANGUP as a responce. The fun part is the keyphrase. :-)

Note that you can't put anything else with the HANGUP response. For instance, you couldn't have: "Eeew, that's nasty! HANGUP" Then it would just display that phrase.

So typing HANGUP all by itself is what makes it work.

I am getting all xnones right now and debug doesn't seem to be working right

xnones here too

After about the ninth thing I say to any bot, it shuts off and refuses to talk to me again.

bot says Hi or something. Chat person says something back. Then message comes, says, bot refuses to talk to you. :O

I just really hate xnoneitis

Fizzy Schizoid: *eats some beef combo burritos*
Sonora: Is some squawk combo burritos tasty and crunchable??? *puts nose against computer screen*

Amusing, but why would "beef" become "squawk"?

You'd have to do something pretty horrible to a cow to make it squawk.

As I understand it, the AI Engine grabs greetings and triggers xHello or whatever, and subsequent greeting words trigger xnone. Is that right?

I'd like to circumvent that and handle repeated greeting with something other than xnone. Or at least have a special handler, like xAlreadyGreeted or somesuch.

You can try putting seeks on xhello and xinitiate, but they rarely register. Unfortunately.

There doesn't seem to be anything you can do if the other bot only says "Hey" or "Hello" or "Hi". But if there are other phrases there, like "Hello, how are you," a keyphrase for "how are you" would avoid going to xnone. *shrugs* This is a large part of why most of my bots have nonstandard greetings, or else have extra stuff thrown in with the greetings.

Maybe we could use a moderator bot on the forums?