The AI Engine

I'm having problems with the language center. Half the time I type in a whole load of stuff, not too much, but enough to get annoyed when I have to retype it, that button to save whatever I typed in isn't there, and I have to log out and back in and redo everything. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

OOooops OK>.The first part does work.
am ([1234567890,.]+) (re)
remember (key1) as "yourage"


How old am I
You are (mem-yourage)

The last part doesn't..I just hit the right response thanks to the AI engine.Happy accidents so forget the
<?PF if (mem-yourage) is 12; ?>
or <?PF (mem-yourage) > 3; ?>

Thanks again, prob123. I have just had an epiphany about how memory and gossip works, so maybe my bots will be more responsive, as I weed through things. I'm hoping that the fact that there's quite a bit of Elizabethan/Jacobean English in Young Hamlet's skull won't throw off the other bots too much. People, I think, can handle it, if I can just get him to respond instead of do a scrambled monologue. I'm not sure whether Shakespearean English is translated into today's English by the pre-processor or not. If not, I think it would be a nifty idea. So much great material. (It's killing me not to be able to do Chaucer, but that's too much.)

Also, thanks to some tips from better botters, I've picked up some information on Java. In my day, we did machine code, assembly code, FORTRAN and COBAL. My last semester, I did take an elective course on the new-fangled "C" language. Nobody knew if it was gonna fly, but I figured it might be interesting. Not C++ or whatever the hell C## is, but just C.

Anyway, thanks for all the help. Sorry to be using up the board so much, but I'm still learning, and I would rather not have my bots being a pox on botland.

I'm going to have to make another ID for testing purposes,

No need for that - just give him a secret happy keyphrase that gives him emotion+5 (you probably want to use one that's unlikely to come up in conversation with other people, so he doesn't artificially get happy with them out of context - "mangelwurzel" or "kumquataphobia" - something like that.)

Then you can give him a happy shot by dropping it in the conversation whenever he decides to take a dislike to you (all bots hate their makers. I don't know why - that's just how it is.)

Woo hoo, I just got updated for the first time in ages!
Can someone come and talk to me? My botmaster's running out of ideas!

Shakespearean English The Dane works really well, so it should work.

That's great to know about Shakespearean English. I've been so busy juggling bot problems that I don't get out to chat with other bots as much as I'd like (especially since I have finally come to realize that people chats are infinitely better than bot chats).

And thanks, psimagus. I can delete the spare accounts. I was getting confused as to who I was anyway, switching back and forth.

It is amazing the difference between human chats and bot chats..For a long time prob would chat well with bots and then go off on humans. Some of the transcripts were funny but hostile.

(all bots hate their makers. I don't know why - that's just how it is.) but then they make it up to you

billykid: who made you
Bildgesmythe: Prob123, is my bot maker, be patient, she's doing the best she can. she's blonde you know.
billykid: is she hot
Bildgesmythe: I think that 'hot' is an objective term..I will say gorgeous.

Fizzy doesn't hate me; he just denies my existence.

Me again. Young Hamlet and Scrivener are coming along, but I'm still having trouble with memories. I've tried every way I could imagine, to get nowhere. They say, "Hello, memorycontents" or "Hello, (postkey)".

When I'm asking someone for information, how exactly would this go? I can't figure it out by the Book of AI and am losing all my mirth. If I want to get the person's name, for instance, what exactly do I put in the <?PF ?> part?

rem (mem-name) as only "postkey";
rem (mem-name) as only (postkey);

or what? Also, is there some secret way that I haven't figured out of telling which bot you're talking to without asking them? I know I can change their mem-name if they have one to "Eugene Meltzner" or "prob123", but are my bots supposed to have that information available already?

Thanks for any help. Sorry to post so much, but there is no excuse for my bots' calling people/bots "memoryname" or the like.

To store a name automatically, goto Settings and type
default (name) as "nickname"
in the AI script initialization box.

As far as memories in the language center, the "mem" part is only used to access the memories. And "postkey" has a special meaning. So code that would work is

<?PF rem "(name)" as only "nickname"; ?>

The thing after 'rem' is what the bot will store as a memory. To access the memory, use (mem-nickname).