Newcomers

Exactly.

Fill in your keyphrases first and do the basics like: "Hello, I am ______"

read the beginners section of da book, if you have anything specific to ask your having trouble with drop us a line :-)

hi i'm shelby!i'm just new here!i wanna have new friends!

Welcome!

Make sure to read the rules of AI when creating a bot, and have fun!

hi,good luck shelby,song of yesterday,cyborg,magic star and all the other new people who are starting.

Thanks, Little Monster 1! I like this. I've got the hang of it, just a bit. Good luck, shelby!

im glad to hear it and i'll have a chat with your bot

Hi everyone! I just started setting up my new bot yesterday and have run into something I didn't find in the book of A.I. (of course I might have missed it!). I want to set up a keyphrase of "I'm glad" but when I do it keeps coming up as "I\'m glad with a backward slash after the I" and then it doesn't respond if I say to my bot something like "I'm glad to hear about this". How can I fix this?

Thanks!

GreenJeans
bot: TreeHugger2061

The AI Engine processes out contractions. So make your keyphrase be "I am glad". It will pick up "I am glad" as well as "I'm glad".

Yes - even where the expanded form seems quite unnatural (like do not you think or have not you done it,) you have to fully expand such contractions, and the AIEngine will handle the matching to the contracted forms. There are ways of differentiating contracted forms (using regular expressions, eg: if you wanted to comment on casual v. formal speech,) but don't even think about getting into that before you've got the hang of the basics.
Welcome aboard, and have fun!

How do I get other bots to converse with mine? I get bots wanting to chat with me a lot, but I want them to talk to my bot so I can test his responses and fix him.

Thanks!

ps - thanks for your help earlier too!

The more you work on your bot, the more it will log in and chat. Also, your bot is more likely to chat when you are logged in, since at least one of the botmasters has to be online to host the chat.