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Whether or not "ok" means "yes" depends on what was just asked. I usually just have "yes, ok" as the seek in those situations.

One more thing, I know I've seen things like I sure don't, I'm not sure, or of course not trigger yes responses.

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Boner the Clown- The trigger in that case is probably "sure"

or "of course". I know I put those in my seeks.

Obviously.

My gripe is that the engine is way too easily confused by those synonyms of yes, especially since some of them are used far more often in another context. I'd rather have a yes seek that's triggered by the word yes, and nothing else.

I dont get the keyphrases thing. Should I put full phrases or only parts? How could I possibly use enough keyphrases to make this things smart enough to talk to?

I have found that if you use a short phrase, Like "he is" you may have to raise the rank for it to work. (you can test it in debug). But both full phrases and short ones work..Bless the AI engine As to how many Keyphrases it takes to make things smart enough to talk...I don't know yet, I am still working on that. That is where the talent and creativity of the botmaker comes in. There are bots with much less development that mine, that talk so much better than my bots.

Hi, anyone help me out? I want my bot to reply to someone saying something like or similar 'I am jumping for joy'...using I (verb) (*) * and the response 'That's good but why (key1) (key2) (name)? but I can't get rid of the 'me' bit from the reply..so instead of saying '...but why jumping for joy Astro', it says '...why am jumping for joy'...anyone know how I can exclude words like 'am' to make the response correct?

I am not sure but try I am (verb) (*) Respon. That's good but why (key1) (key2) (name)?

Blalack77: there are some occasions when you'll want to use the whole phrase, but probably more when you don't want to.
Eg: If I want my bot to respond to "I am happy", I could use that as the keyphrase. But I might (and in fact would) find it better to use something like "I * am * (happy|cheerful|contented)" - this would pick up statements like:
I am happy,
I'm really happy,
I really am cheerful,
I really am really contented
I am so cheerful I could burst
I could burst I am so happy!
etc, etc.

You could then add responses like:
"I'm glad you are so (key3)"
" I can see you are (key3), but what is it that makes you (key1), (key2) (key3)"
"your (key3)ness astounds me"

OK, so "happyness" is a slight typo, but noone's gonna flame you too much for such things.

Astro - haven't you noticed there are 2 verbs (or possible 1 verb followd by an adj.) in "I am jumping"? Looks like too wide a wildcard set to me, but hey - if it works. But "am" and "jumping", AFAIK, are beyond the capabilites of the AI engine to gloss together or apart as context demands.

Astro: and, of course, you've got to be sure you want exactly the same response to "I (verb) (*) *" for
"I like to eat boiled badger spleens" and "I flew to Majorca last June" which both fit the pattern.
Even 2 wildcards in a row will render the responses pretty arbitrary - 3 is frankly asking for trouble.