The AI Engine

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

what dedication! you guys are so serious about this. do you still get fun out of it?

can anyone offer a solution that will take less than an hour to implement?

I LOVE every minute, it's all good It isn't as bad as it sounds, once you get started.