The AI Engine

Now that everyone's having socks over in the bar I'll ask a boring AI question:

Does anyone know a way of programmatically erasing memories? Not overwriting them, blanking them out. I want to make sure memories associated with one guest don't seep into another (especially now all guests are guest153). I've tried various things like
forget "youare"
remember "" as only "youare"
remember NULL as only "youare"
even
remember "\0" as only "youare"
but can't find anything that works.

rem "blank" as only "youare"

That should erase any existing memories stored as "youare" and replace them with "blank". But you'll have to put it in, say, xinitiate and xhello if you want it to do that on every convo.

Wouldn't that just load the string "blank" as the value of the memory?

You might try

rem "" as only "youare"

but this probably still won't erase the memory entirely. It should prevent it inserting anything inappropriate into dialogue, but it won't necessarily get round the problem of firing a memory-dependent response with nothing in the memory that you want to appear.

Alas, even the Forge has its bounds - it gives us something to push at, but there's inevitably a level of frustration inherent in the misfiring aft agley of the best laid schemes of mice and men.

So we could add rem (name) as only "name" on xhello and Xinitiate as a kind of work around for the "all guest are one" problem? If you had a lot of memories, there would be a long string of those, and you would still loose the ability to remember past conversations with the same person. I'm still afraid to upload versions with AI script changes (and I'm too impatient to do it online). I would hate to add all that and then have the prof fix the guest id issue. Does anyone know if this set up is 'fixed' yet in the sense that we should take it as this is what we will work with?

I know that will only replace existing memories with "blank", but then you could use things like if (mem-youare) is not "blank" to control where they show up.

That's very true

"I know that will only replace existing memories with "blank", but then you could use things like if (mem-youare) is not "blank" to control where they show up."

There's a problem there as well: the "if not" condition applies to *any* of the memories. So if I remember "blank" as only "youare" then later add "a Martian" as another "youare", the "blank" will still prevent responses firing.

The only workround to the workround appears to be to *always* use "as only" which severely limits the usefulness of the memory system.

So I think I'll have to stick with my current approach of doing "save 'chatting' as only youare" in xhello and putting up with the odd strange response.

But a "forget" command is definitely on my wishlist!

You could still make it work. Have a KP that stores the memory as only "youare" that only triggers if (mem-youare) is "blank". Then have other memory phrases that only trigger if (mem-youare) is not "blank", but they don't need the "as only" bit now.

Yes, a forget command would be simpler.

I would just rather have the guests come in under different numbers.

That's surely the best way; at least, I have only been able to think of some horribly intricate ways of getting the same effect. Yes, you can blank out any memory you want, but then your bot just has amnesia, instead of keeping track of different users, as was the original (very good) plan.

hey u can all fuck off:O

I keep trying to "Post a Message in The AI Engine", but they keep showing up in this forum!