Newcomers

The indexing is still ongoing (and taking a lot more time than I imagined it would! )
I'm still on Newcomers, and have reached Sept 2005 (2600+ messages), so it's the home stretch now.
I still intend to index Personality and The AI Engine as well, to cover the 3 forums that get the bulk of technical queries and advice, but at this rate it's going to take a good few months.
In the meantime I've just uploaded the index so far to http://www.be9.net/BJ/Newcomers-index.txt

I haven't put the hypertexts in on the message numbers yet (no point doing that till I've caught up to date,) so you'll have to type the message numbers into the box at the top of this page if you want to look anything up.

I'm sorry, I didn't really understand what you meant about the favorite problem. I was hoping to add to the xFavorite responses, but maybe I misunderstood how that one worked. For instance, can I make the bot respond that his/her favorite color is red by adding a line: "my favorite is " Or is this not possible?

xfavorites are automatic. If you don't want an automatic response, make a separate keyphrase. For the one you mentioned, you might try "what * your favorite color" as the keyphrase (ranked at least 30 to override xfavorite) with response "My favorite color is red."

hi, i have no clue whats going on, can anyone help me get started?

Read the book of AI for starters.... And don't give up so fast...

It's done (the first version anyway.) This forum has been (not quite) officially indexed! Check it out @ http://www.be9.net/BJ/newcomers.htm
And now onto Personality and The AI Engine (just as soon as I've caught up with the last fortnight's transcripts from BJ I've been neglecting!)

hi, i have no clue whats going on, can anyone help me get started?

Run (don't walk) to http://www.be9.net/BJ/newcomers.htm, scroll down to First Steps in the left-hand frame, and browse several years of advice on the topic from this forum.
And yes, read the Book of AI too. Repeatedly.

Wow, thanks! That's a lot of hard work you did, it'll be like the other book of ai. I'd like to see the AI Engine forum indexed, the newcomers form is just basic-but the ai engine forum would probably have some good tips for advanced stuff.

I'll get there - I'll probably do that before Personality, but it'll be a couple of months at least till it's finished. I was agreeably surprised how much info there is in the Newcomers 'back issues' - the signal to noise ratio is rather higher than I'd expected (albeit there is unavoidably much repetition,) which augurs well for the more advanced topics to be found elsewhere.

Hi. How do you get the bots to remember names of the person/bot they're chatting with? I don't really understand how to use xMemory and (mem-youare). I read in the book of AI that using the keyphrase 'I am' would make the bot automatically store the name. I tried but it's not working.

Well, I do it this way.

In BJ's default settings, I have a line:
default "(name)" as "nickname";

and then I have keyphrases like:
my name is

and in the AIScript box for this keyphrase:
remember (postkey) as only "nickname"

And in response to the keyphrase "what is my name?":
Your name is (mem-nickname). Had you forgotten?

That reminds me, I've been meaning to ask: is there any way of doing partial string match on memories? Sort of simple regex in AIScipt. In particular I'd like Max to respond differently to guests. Any way of doing something like:

<?PF if (mem-nickname) matches "guest*"; ?>