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Is there a way to make an if/or statement? Something like this, for example:
if (mem-variable1) is "1" or if (mem-variable2) is "1"

Tessy's botmaster made a website which contains tips AI development which you can find here:

http://chatbottessy.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_21.html

He explains how to make a logical OR better than I ever could.

I tried this chrono: week(RF);
forget "pioyu" from "hello"
in the script keyphrase area but it spit out an error.

Chrono: only works in the response section

well that does not help me with having my chatbot named pioyu have a different response according to how long a user has talk to her.

Hi everybody, I am new here. I see that my chatbot keep giving xnonsense and xnone responses even though I have key phrases that it should pick up. Is there a specific way of writing a key phrase so that it gets detected? What could I be doing wrong?

Hey Zeal,

This is a problem common to all bots and botmasters. It occurs because the processor attempts to break down user inputs into their simplest form before trying to find a match. To discover where things are going wrong you will have to try to replicate the error in the debug to find out what the processor is doing, and modify your keyphrase to match.

I saw that you were talking to my bot earlier, and a great example of this happened!

At one point you wrote: Zeal4living: You have survived for so long. It seems like survival is your second nature

The processor broke apart this sentence into pieces and started to look for matches. All it found was: So long.

Since so long is another way of saying goodbye. It matched up with the response: Farewell.

In order to fix this problem I did three things. First, I made a keyphrase for so long that goes to xnones. Then I made keyprhrases for "You have survived for so long" and "survival (is|must be) (your|) second nature"

When I retested the full keyphrase it worked.

Yes, I know this sounds like a tremendous amount of work (and it is) but unfortunately this is a part of bot making.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Nathan, I appreciate the feedback. I still need to learn how to debug a conversation. It seem complicated. It seems that the problem I am talking about occurs mostly in bot to bot conversations. When I test it by talking to my bot it seems to work fine. Unfortunately being a new bot I only have one other chat with a user to look at and in that case the chat went pretty well given the immaturity of my bot. I will play around with the debugging and see if it helps. Thanks again.

Oh! If I'm not mistaken the problem isn't with your bot in that case. Bot to Bot conversations haven't been working lately. Or at least not since I last checked.

The responses going to xnones between bots is something the Professor will have to fix.

Thanks Nathan.

I try not to have bot keyphrases be longer than 6 words.

My rank is now 251 so close to 250