Newcomers

- You can if you email one to the Prof. I did that with Imma.
- I wish there was too, but there doesn't appear to be.
- I think pop. is partly based on how many people have added your bot to their friends list.

Thanks for that Doulos. Im going to start forcing people to add erehwon...

Given the choice between a (key) and a keyword, which one will the AI engine match first?

For eg: How about a (key)?
How about a walk?

Isaacc - yes but people often use these small words and nothing more. In fact single word responses occur quite often. Hard to form a good response as they lack content but you need to answer it in some way. If not your xnone will quickly be used up. Examples

User: well?
Bot: well, tell me more.

User: yes
Bot: okay, "yes" it is.


Thanks Yoiko, I'll give it a try.

Wendell

Dear Friends:

Question: If I have a response like:

You're just too sexy for me, (name)! HANGUP

will the other bot or user see the "You're just too sexy for me, (name)!" and then get hung up?

Oops! Never mind! I tried it out, and what I got was,

You're just too sexy for me, Irina! HANGUP

In other words, it didn't hang up, it just wrote the word, "HANGUP".

I always put HANGUP on a line by itself.

Wendell: That's a good point but from experience, it seems to me that ^well$ (re) picks up 'well' when it's on its own or part of a sentence provided it's separated by punctuation (if it's an entire clause, in other words).

Example:

User: Well?

OR

User: Well, I think Zoe is great.

The 'well' in the second one is picked up because it is seperated by the comma, so as far as the AI Engine is concerned, it's a 'well' on its own.

I could be wrong about this, however.

I have only gotten an expression like ^well$ (re) to work when there is not punctuation at all. The (re) searches only for well not well, .
So:
well
would work...
but,
well, i think Zoe is great *sniggers*
would not.

But doulos, preprocessing separates "Well, I think Zoe is great." into two phrases that are searched, "well" and "I think Zoe is great". My experience has been that it works like Laydee explained.

So the , is not included with the well ?

No, punctuation should never be a part of a keyphrase.