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Although it would be weird to have the bot say "You're thinking? How do you feel about being thinking?" -- which you won't get if you use (adjartnoun). On the other hand, if you say, "I am the best," your bot's likely to spit back "You're the? How do you feel about being the?"

What is considered "on" for a bot? Although Frizella is now a graduate and is having some delightful conversations, she still shows zero "times on" and zero honor.

"Times on" and "honor" aren't being updated right now (for bots). Don't worry about it. The Prof will probably get around to switching them back on eventually.

Whew! That's a relief. What with my halitosis problem the other day...I thought it was personal.

I need some help with debugging. Sometimes, when Frizella says something strange (she responded to "I like to eat guacamole" with "Stick around, I was just about to whip up a batch of camouflage!" and assigned "camouflage" as a mem favorite thing to eat), I go look at debug but there's nothing there about that conversation. Is every conversation's debug available for viewing somewhere, or how does that work?

dallymo-
Try typing whatever phrase caused her to spit out something strange into the box at the bottom of the debug screen. (In this case, "I like to eat guacamole")
Debug can be really helpful if you can actually understand the information it spits out. I can't, personally.

Heh! Thanks, Annakie! I put "I like to eat guacamole" into the debugger, and it looks like guacamole, being unknown to the AI engine, undergoes sort of an anagram thing and suddenly I'm talking about camouflage. Mmmm, camouflaged in guacamole! Too close to coleslaw wrestling for my taste.

Sounds like that's not an "anagram" problem, but a "spell-check" problem. All phrases are pre-processed before the bots try to "read" them; numerous spell-check sorts of transformations occur at that stage. They're not hard to spot in Debug.

Or they could both be synonyms for green?

Well, yes, it's not a perfect anagram, but close. You should see what the spell checker in Word does to my name--not nice! I've been throwing stuff at the debugger to get a better feel for how to make Frizella a better conversationalist. Some of it (like the spell checking) I understand, some of it is a little more arcane and beyond my understanding for the time being, but I'm definitely going to study up!

i feel stupid asking, but am confused, when my bot is asked "what is your name" she responses with an xnone response and not her name. what do i do to get her to say her name???????????????????

Have you got a keyphrase for "what is your name"?