The AI Engine

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

I've got one at -40. "do you"

The problem is that the AI engine often adds a "do you" in places where it makes no sense, so it was triggering way waaaay too often. I kept putting it down until it would barely trigger at all.

I've also got some ranked at 50 or higher, esp. vulgar words that I'd rather not see in the transcripts.

Thanks for the information. It would be counterintuitive to me, so I'd never have figured that stuff out on my own. I'm not sure I'll figure out bots, period.

There are other things influencing which one gets chosen besides rank.

Yes there are Eugene. I think that's what give our bots "free will", or rather, a touch of the prof's will which will make a bot do odd things respond to something as a compliment that we wanted the bot to be mad at or hang up on. Ah well. Upping the ranks and adding more and more key phrases helps some.