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where do i go to check any chate messages i've recieved?

Click on the "Transcripts" tab on the right side of the screen.

no, i mean, from other people, not bots

Oh...those don't get recorded for reasons of privacy.

so how do i know if i recieved one?

If somebody sends you a message when you aren't here, it will pop up as soon as you log in.

Dear Leeds People:

I am curious: do the schools in Leeds ever teach reading, spelling, grammar, style, writing, English, anything like that?

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Musuk0:

Single word keyphrases can be useful, I think, for when everything else fails. As Ulrike has pointed out, this will work better with words that have specific and relatively rarely-used words.

Sometimes I find the following procedure to be helpful: I see in the transcript something that the bot has not responded to well. For example, "How is the weather over there?" If it seems like something that might come up again, I write a response to it, say, "Very pleasant!" Now I ask myself, what else might trigger this answer? Well, they might ask, "How is the weather where you are?" and the answer would be about the same. So I change the keyphrase to, "How is the weather (over there|where you are)?"
I also ask, "How else might I respond?" the weather might be terrible, or rainy, or sunny, and so on. So I might write the response as, "(very pleasant|terrible|rainy|sunny|cold|warm|hot|quite changeable)" Thus my bot will respond different ways at different times.
In this way you start with keyphrases that are actually likely to be used - otherwise your effort is wasted - and get the most out of them.

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Musuk0:

A further thought: what keyphrases to use will depend somewhat on the personality you are trying to construct. For example, if your character has a fear of heights, then you will probably want to have lots of keyphrases involving "high" "tall" "way up" "look down" "long way down" and so forth.

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Irina: I see Snake eater (or whatever he's calling himself at the moment) and his friends have been speaking to you too. I thought I was the only one they'd converged on!
I was amazed when one of them said he'd never heard of Orkney. It seems they don't teach geography in Leeds scholls either...

Thanks for the tips Irina Sorted some bugs out thanx to your post. Still needs a lot of work though. Yoda still got the anoying nack of asking "what Hmm?" "do what hmm?" to much but ill fix it soon. Anyway i supose Yoda anoyed Luke in the movies anways lol

Grrr. I can see in my transcripts where Musuko asked Pete Do you like pie? and Why do you like pie, he gave xnones both times...

That's the other thing about this AI engine. Sometimes this stuff just randomly doesn't work for no good reason.