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Once the AI engine says blab...xnone is all you will get

Yeah, I haven't found a way around blab--Psi or Prob, would "about you (re)" work in raw? or the thing with all the annoying brackets?

well, we did manage to get "hello" to work as a set of regex ranges on the old server, but I don't think that works since we moved to the new one. The AIEngine used to get confused and give up trying to parse the sense of it, but the blab-assigner seems to have a higher priority now, and I haven't noticed [h][e][l][l][o]<0> working lately

You could try any of these with raw mode (and a very high ranking):

([about]+) ([you]+) (re)
([a][b][o][u][t]) ([y][o][u]) (re)
[a][b][o][u][t] [y][o][u] (re)
([a])([b])([o])([u])([t]) ([y])([o])([u]) (re)
([a]+)([b]+)([o]+)([u]+)([t]+) ([y]+)([o]+)([u]+) (re)

but I don't guarantee any will work reliably.

I wish there was a way to get rid of/or override blab.

You: tell me more about you
Bot: I live a life of fun and frolic in a land of magic.

How about you goes to blab and an xnone.

You: what about you
Bot: What about me?

Help! Catastrophe bad surprise! Anyone know what happened?
My bot is changing ich prenoun with the name!

So "I'm not very well, and you? it is changed by my bot Tommaso in "Tommaso not very well, how are Marco3b?" it is terrible!

Ah, I understood, today should be my first bot holidays, isn't it? ;-)

Yes, it's Hulk day. At first I thought it was "Bob Dole" day, but if you look closely you can see it's more basic sounding than even a US politician. Just be glad we don't have "folksy" day yet.

thanks Bev!

Hallo,

should seema stupid question (like the most of mine) but
anyone knows whythe tag "
" doesn't work in aswers?

Thanks

Hallo,

if someone need or would like toimprove, I put the (thanks) plug-im under category phrases. I wasn't able to find it!

Thank you, Marco3b!

Marco3b, what was your tag without the pointy brackets?

Unsolicited advice department:

A conversation is somewhat like a tennis game. It's boring if the other person just watches the ball goes by - you want her to hit it back, in a (not too) challenging way.

A lot of responses are passive: they don't give the guest much to go on. For example, consider the canned response to xcompliment, "That was kind". It's an appropriate response, but it doesn't give the guest much guidance as to what sort of thing to say next. Instead you might say, "That was kind. How did you get to be such a nice person?" Now the guest has a question to answer.