The AI Engine

Does anyoone know if there is a way for a bot/botmaster to introducethemselves without triggering xgossip instead of the seek? I want to avoid this if possible:

Lien: hello
Gabibot: Who’s there?
Lien: Berkay.. my name is Berkay.
Gabibot: Berkay has gone crazy! Berkay is forming a lynch mob.
Lien: My name is Berkay.
Gabibot: Do you think that deep down Berkay is sorry?
Lien: yes

well, you could try turning gossip off. But AFAIK we don't yet have a fix for the x-initiate/hello/seek problem, except not to use seeks in x-initiate

I wouldn't have thought BJ was an acquired taste.

No, I'm not entering johanna. I might enter another bot next year. johanna is unemotional and avoids gossip, which makes her unsuited, as does her occupation (because it severely limits the sorts of reponses that would be in character).

Since I'm in question mode, why does "your * friend" get triggered by "Good day, Friend."? I took the * out now, but shouldn't the original KP work for "your friend", "your best friend", "your warrior friend" ...etc?

you could check it in debug, and see what sentence the AI Engine was making out of it - it can interpret things a bit strangely. That might tell you "why" at least, but "how to fix it"... removing the offending keyphrase is probably the only option.
You can always restore much of the functionality by adding one for "your (adjnoun) friend".

I wonder what's the best way to allow my bot to use (mem-name) instead of (name) when these differ, assuming that on some occasions there'll be no memory (mem-name). I could I think substitute (name|mem-name) in responses but this would take hours. Can I use an initialisation script?

I just use (mem-name), I never had a problem with it. I think the AI engine goes to (name) if the memory doesn't exist.

oh ok. thanks prob123. substituting (name|mem-name) doesn't work anyway, of course.

You can do that by making two separate answers for the question, both rated -5 to +5:
(example) What is my name?
1 Your name is (name).
2 Your name is (mem-name).

If there is a name memory, the engine will go to that one. If not, it will go to the default (name).

You can do that by making two separate answers for the question, both rated -5 to +5:

I tried that but it would occasionally use the name when I had a mem-name available.

if i understand you correctly, yes, i realise that, but i have already written hundreds of responses using only (name) and i don't want to add more responses that merely differ in this way. there must be a quicker way.

thanks anyway, rainstorm

I did the sane thing, it took me about 3hrs if i remember, I used the search and a lot of copy and paste mem-. lol