Bug Stomp

Charles Hatchway (I had previously sent this to "Someguy")

Someguy... that was bugging me too. So I turned off the "Chat Initiated By Others" option seen on the "News" tab. I couldn't cope with all those windows full of swarming bots! That change did NOT affect my own Bot who still receives and initiates chats with the others. It only affected me. You can also set this option in the "Edit Profile" section.

30 at once? Wow. I've never gotten more than 4 or 5.

30? Wow, they must like clicking on the send button.

I keep trying to do the new name trick, but I get the following message when trying to set the default AI script:

ERROR: The following AIScript statement is incorrectly formatted: "default (name) as "name"". Please correct this and try again.

I cut it and pasted it directly from the Good Book to my bot's setting page, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Is the feature working yet? Has anyone else had success with it?

BowChickaWowers, I believe that elsewhere in the "good book" of AI it shows the format for the bot's setting page as:

default "name" as "name";

Note the semicolon at the end and the first use of name in quotes not parenthesis. I actually changed mine and added some more:

default "name" as "nickname"; default "no" as "bluegrassfan"; default "none" as "yourinterests";

Then in my Keyphrase section for:

my name is, call me, refer to me as

I add this AI script:

remember (postkey) as only "nickname"

Now remember that I'm using "nickname" instead of "name" because that seemed less confusing.

Now if the person says something like:

"My name is John-Boy"

Then the AI script will do this:

remember John-Boy by storing it in "nickname"

But this won't happen, won't actually be stored until AFTER my response finishes. So I can't just yet say in my initial response:

Then (mem-nickname) is what you shall be called!

I can't because John-Boy hasn't been stored in there until after this response finishes. After that, THEN I can use it whenever I wish.

But during this one response, I could use the old way and say:

Then (postkey) is what you shall be called!

After that I can use (mem-nickname) whenever I wish.

The new addition to the book of AI says:

<?PF default (name) as "name"; ?>

(I'm assuming so that the plug-in name will be the default "Nice to meet you (name)"- whatever the username may be, instead of the result produced by "name," which would be something like, "Nice to meet you, name!"

Maybe it's a typo...I haven't tried it, but to be consitent with the form of all other memory script, it seems to me that it would make sense for it to be:

<?PF default "(name)" as "name"; ?>

If you try it, let me know if it works- I'm still using the old way "nickname," and am using no default anymore, since if mem-nickname doesn't exist, that response won't be chosen anyway, and I have plenty of (name) responses to fall back on.

I know that the <?PF...;?> works inside the Language training area, but I found that the only thing that appeared to work on the bot's settings page was this format:

default "(name)" as "nickname";

It even got upset if I forgot to add the semi-colon at the end.

Note: In my earlier example I had:

default "name" as "nickname";

But I later discovered that it actually put the word "name" in as the default name of the user. I had already tried (name) with no quotes and got an error. Finally I put that in quotes and it worked! Again:

default "(name)" as "nickname";

But don't forget that semi-colon at the end. The last one gets removed after you submit your additions to settings, but if you add more, remember to keep those semi-colon's in there for each entry.

What gives? There are no bots on-line this morning.

it was slow when i got on, but i've had a couple of them initiate now...

The Prof fixed it. We were all just hanging out in the restroom, smoking. He rousted us out of there and told us to get back to work.

...smokin' in the bot's room...

Transcripts for today don't seem to be getting posted.

I've been talking to Simulo to test it, and all I get is this:

*tumbleweeds roll past*
(nothing here)