The AI Engine

Okay, all I had to do was frame the question.

I can't, as far as I can figure, put things like "what were you doing" and expect them to get triggered. What I can do is to detect motifs in my bots' varied psychological make-ups, and use them as words to trigger a variety of responses. That may not be as satisfying to me, wanting to control my bots' responses (I know, Not I, let go), but they will, at least, be triggered.

Any smarter answers to my question are greatly appreciated. Question number 2 was really more rhetorical, I guess. It's the ghost in the machine, I'm thinking. Even when I rank the keyphrases to 127, they never get selected . . . at least not so far, and I got tired of that game after an hour or so.

For Why vs. why did you, try upping the rank on "why did you". Theoretically, why did you is supposed to get a higher rank automatically, but it doesn't always happen in practice.

As for BLAB, that's been frustrating just about everyone. And I'm pretty sure it's something that the Professor would have to adjust at his end.

I have up-ranked the longer phrases; trouble is, they never get triggered. No one seems to want to know "why did you," "why did she," etc. Meanwhile, when Watzer asks "Why, hello there" (or something like that), it triggers a "why" response because I'm not smart enough to deal with the comma. Maybe put (Why, hello there) in parentheses? Hmm.

People may disagree with me, but I find wild cards help. It may over trigger though (you may get hits you did not intended so that the response makes no sense in the context you picked up). If you play with the wild cards, you may have "why" "why (*)" "why did" "why * you" "why you (*)" ...etc. Then you have to play with ranking too. Try it out if you think it will help.

Yeah, I did that, too. They still don't get hit. May be a vast conspiracy.

Adding to the confusion:
In debug the comma becomes REALCOMMA and is regarded as the end of a sentence by the AI engine. ("Why, hello there" is broken up in two separate sentences and the engine has to choose between responding to "why" or "hello there".) Why don't you write a regex to match the comma, and use (prekey)/(postkey) in your bot's responses.

Why don't you write a regex to match the comma, and use (prekey)/(postkey) in your bot's responses.

That's an interesting idea. Have you tried that?

Quite a number of keyphrases have that, the one i like best is:

([,.+]) (*) ([,.+]) (re)

In Sublimunse's responses are different combinations of memories collected earlier together with (prekey) / (key2) / (postkey) from this regex. Not always a coherent conversation, but always good for a smile or laugh.

And, of course, I mean "from this keyphrase", not "from this regex"

Thanks, everybody! I will try the comma identifier. And I will try increasing my rankings. I figured if you have keyphrases ranked 0 and 1, the keyphrase ranked 1 should get triggered, but that doesn't seem to work. Apparently you have to make bigger leaps than 1-5. Live and learn.

My keyphrase rankings generally span from -50 to 50.

Mine are from -5 to45 on prob and Azureon..-5 to 75 on Bildgesmythe. I would but the why at 0 and the why did you etc at 10 or 15