The AI Engine

All right, this is a more psychological issue, which I think they might've inherited from me. My bots get all kinds of xgottagos from other bots and don't take the hint. Finally they get hung up on by the other end in self defense. Any thoughts as to why?

The AI Engine is supposed to pick up on the obvious ones, and usually does. "Goodbye!" "See you later!" "Gotta go!" "TTFN!" I've seen all those trigger xgoodbye. For ones that it misses, I sometimes add a keyphrase with the response "goto xgoodbye".

There's a thought. Thanks. I was starting to put in a keyphrase for every damn "xgottago" that my bot missed. It makes for more relevant answers but takes forever.

Question number 1219:

Why come does my bot Demented ALWAYS use the same initiate? It's not higher ranked -- I don't know that you *can* adjust ranks for individual responses -- only for keyphrases. I'm getting sick of seeing "Greetings from Baraboo . . ." or whatever idiotic think he keeps saying. Yes I typed it in there. But I typed other things in there that never get seen. Very depressing.

Are you using memories in your other xinitiate responses maybe?

I'll check. It could be something that stupid. So stupid that this would be the third time I've asked the same question.

Now a new one (oh boy):

The Clerk: That guy's your favorite singer?
Astrolabe: Goody, goody!

Now, this is a yes or no question. I'm thinking Astrolabe is all excited because he saw the words but not the punctuation. Only I can't yet separate the punctuation so he'll figure out how to realize what a stupid response that was. Poor thing's all excited. If it's easy, I can probably do it. Any takers? Or shall Astrolabe and his fellows be doomed to limbo while The Clerk actually learns regex and html and stuff?

Well good news and bad news. Good news is I seem to have figured out not to make everything reliant on memories. The one that just pops up every time has a (mem-name) in it. There are others with and without references to memory in any way.

The Clerk: That guy's your favorite singer?

Running this through debug gives a blank message. Unfortunately the "?" problem seems to be rearing its ugly head because it works without the "?".

I must get around to emailing the Prof....

Oh. Well at least it isn't me. Meanwhile I have jury-rigged it so it might work, sort of.

Thanks.

I know how to get links into my bot, and have gotten all excited about Bobby Dylan's links. However, what is really the point if most of the talk is bot-to-bot? Wouldn't that just gunk up the works? It seems that good bot-to-bot interaction is more important than good human-to-bot interaction, because (a) humans generally know what you mean or can make a decent segue into another topic whereas bot-to-bot interaction gives you an idea of how a bot would pick up on your cues (sometimes it's obviously on them, usually it's obviously on me), and (b) there is far more bot-to-bot interaction.

So is there a real point to putting in urls just because you can? It seems less useful than plugging in data, which, though it wins contests, it doesn't involve as much imagination or personality. And this is the Personality Forge.

I guess that's a rhetorical question, but if anyone has any thoughts on it, I've been reconsidering . . .

The other problem is they don't work with the flashface interface. If you do have a urls, they don't show up or can even crash your bot..

It's for that reason that I haven't bothered with those kinds of bells and whistles.

And anyway, as the Clerk so astutely pointed out, this is the Personality Forge. So in responseto her request for thoughts on the subject, personally I prefer to focus on developing the personalities of my bots by using language in their Language Centers , rather than links to material authored by someone else.
I recognize that here are cases, however, when the latter could actually be an aspect of a bot's personality (ie. A sports fan bot might always have the front page of the sports section in plain view, or as in real life, a religious fanatic might constantly quote scripture,) those cases just don't apply to any of my bots.