The AI Engine

Thanks for all the help. I'll keep trying the different methods until something good happens. And yes, I have run into "(postkey)" as being where they're "from" -- that's what I'm trying to get away from. (All the other bots do it, Electra says to me.)

I never use the <?PF rem (xxxxxx) as "zzzzzzz";> format
What I do to store memories is type:

rem (xxxxxx) as "zzzzzzz"; rem (yyyyyy) as "aaaaaaa";

in the AIscriptbox, using (mem-zzzzzzz) and (mem-aaaaaaa) in the bots' responses. It always worked and still works like that for my bots.

With the guests all being 153, it is good to use
<?PF remember "memorycontents" as only "memoryname"; ?>
on some memories too. It makes sure that a memory from a past user isn't used.

LarsB -- yeah, that's what I've been reduced to, but I wanted an interactive bot -- how would I know what Fizzy's favorite color of moon dust is? But I do use the initialization script a lot. Unless maybe I'm missing something, I don't see how I could find out something about a bot in conversation using only initialization.

prob -- good idea. I'll add that right away.

There is only one "default (name) as "name"" in the initialization box on the settings page. What I meant is the AIscriptbox you see when you add a key phrase.
What I understand is that whenever a memory is stored it is stored only for that bot/human, Fizzy's favourite colour of moon dust would not, if you manage to get it stored, be used for other bots/humans in chats.

re the guest 153 memories, i have a lot of memories of these users stored and i love to read transcripts of quest 153 responding to other quest 153 stored responses. That'll teach them, not, but at least I do not have to take counter measures like HANGUP and whatnot.

Questions Galore

Take this line from my Electra Mourning. It won't load:

Response: 1) "What's it like in (mem-from)?" AIScript: if (mem-from) is not "(postkey)" ERROR: The following AIScript statement is incorrectly formatted: "if (mem-from) is not (self-from)". Please correct this and try again.

Also: When I try to save via

<?PF rem (postkey) as "from"; ?>

it loads well enough, but if I try to access mem-from, it has saved it as "

What it saves it as is the less than character, which will not, why I know not, print in the above post. I've edited it repeatedly.

What the heck am I doing wrong? It seems simple enough. All the other bots are doing it.

Do you have more responses to that key phrase, at least one without any (mem-from) in it? The engine has to store the memory first before the memory can be used by the bot.

Additionally, what you are trying to do is impossible according to the Book of AI:

The Response will only come up when the given memory does not have the given memoryvalue stored. If there are multiple stored memories of that type, none can be the given memoryvalue.

I take that to mean that one cannot have (postkey) matched against (mem-from) as a conditional, in other words, you'll have to define the "memoryvalue" and not use bot/human input => (mem-from) as the "memoryvalue" to match against (postkey).

Lars, re the second issue (I think the answer to the first is yes, but I'll check again): I agree that the Book of AI doesn't support this. I can get rid of the "rem (postkey)s," but I'll still have the problem of having misguided (mem-whatzitz) having the value of "(whatzitz)" -- I guess I'll try that (again) and see what happens.

I have no idea what is happening. Sometimes variables get saved correctly, more often not, and sometimes the whole file (or line, if I'm working on the bot online) will just blow up in a rage that I would try to do such a thing.

Thanks. You may very well have given some good advice here. At least it makes sense to me.

Okay, I think I have it. In case someone else can't figure out the Book of AI, here is how you save a variable (say, from, for where the bot or person is from), to be recalled by (mem-from):

<?PF rem (from) as "from"; ?>

The only hitch in this is that you will wind up with the value "(from)" instead of "New Hampshire" if they don't give you an answer. So you'd have to check for that, I guess. I have had too much time trying to get on and off and around the Forge the past couple of days that I haven't been able to do much bot-building.

Thanks for all the help!

ERROR: The following AIScript statement is incorrectly formatted: "if (postkey) is not (self-from)". Please correct this and try again.

Now what's wrong with this? Incidentally, I have a variable for (self-from) because it contains a comma, and there's a possibility I would change her hometown.

Egad. Yes I read the BOAI again.