The AI Engine

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Okay. I just split them up since I didn't know what else to do. And I thought I was starting to get smart.

Thanks, Ulrike.

my mate at school raped me

What a slimy thing to do!

If you believe her, that is...

u picking on me oh u have made me cry *grrrrrrrrrr* im going to the pub

Lately, it seems that my bots randomly go willy-nilly from xinitiate/xhello/xintroduce to xgottago/xgoodbye. Sometimes this happens with the other bot, which hurts my bot's feelings, but I talk to him about not worrying about what other bots think of him. But now another issue that I've always had: How in the world do you get a bot to recognize that something is NOT a command? It can be a one-word keyphrase or a multiple-word keyphrase. Usually I can find an imperative in there somewhere, but out of context.

Seems like I might've brought this up before, but I never got it through my skull.

On an unrelated topic, there's this: the Professor kindly changed Deranged and Unhinged II back to Demented and Unhinged. (I know, I know, getting old.) That was because I wanted them under one account. But they've devolved a bit, so I'm re-doing some things that I'd fixed. Your patience is appreciated.

If you have a keyphrase for something, that nearly always overrides xcommand. And, yes, some very odd things get interpreted as commands. A ways back, there's a series of posts discussing a bot who announced "But I don't know how to France!" *shrugs*

i thought u liked me *shrugs* talks to her self hurts her wrists in anger

Thanks, Ulrike. Yesterday got too hectic offline for me to pay much attention to what I was doing online. (Refrigerator died, poured water all over the floor, etc.) I'll check their language -- although I rarely put anything above a 1, occasionally (like with foul language), I put it way up there. But still, that might just be the problem.

Um, I am aware that this is an RTFM question, but I'm too busy learning how to create personalities right now to dive into HTML and Regex and what-not full-force yet.

How do you get your bot to speak in italics? I've seen it done, and I'd prefer to emphasize my bots' words with italics rather than all caps or astericks or underscores or what-not.

Okay, in my brain-dead moments, I'm trying to make some no-brainer additions to my bots. I thought I'd try remembering the last thing I said so that when somebody asked me something like, "What did you just say?" I would have an answer. Sometimes this works. But it balks at this line:

<?PF rem "Must you?, (mem-name)?" as only "lastthingisaid"; ?>

It has nothing to do with the (mem-name), because I tried taking it out. Possibly, I just now realize, it's the question mark. If so, I could reword it (a real pain) by saing "I asked you if . . ." -- how might I capture the punctuation in order to avoid rewriting my sentences?

Thanks.