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I am excited to learn more about bots, this is now an assignment in my college class.

heyyyyyyy!!!!

Well I'm new...so here I am. Hopefully I'll get the hang of the programming here pretty soon. ^ ^

Xinmone, it isn't that hard once you get used to it. I suggest you read the Book of AI a few times.

Hi everybody,

I have advanced AIML knowledge and a bot at Pandorabots I used to run AI bots in Second Life. But this site appears to have additional possibilities.

BTW, can I add a basic face (like mine above) to the bot? I see no option to do this. I may have missed this at setup... AI script is quite different from AIML in its syntaxes, and I make very, very slow progress. Also it would be nice if there had been default files to handle "hello", set and get name in memory etc. Ie: Alice-type bots have 10k+ vocabulary files already there. Otherwise I have to do a lot of hard work from scratch.

If anybody can persuade me this is more advanced than AIML and I might create a premium account.

Many thanks

It is very annoying. I just deleted a bot, so I can start again and THIS TIME add a picture. But now it says, there is already a user by that name. I had deleted that bot, so there is no "user by that name".

I relogged, but it doesn't work. So now I have 2 choices - work on a new bot with a name I don't like, or just give up and go back to Pandorabots.

The bot is refusing to use a reply I wrote for it, and uses some preset phrases. Even when I put ranking of the responce to 50 it still refuces to output it.

It is a simple keyward _ responce pair, does not rely on memory, script, wild cards etc.

Other responces work even with ranking 0, this does not work with ranking 50. I even reset the bot as original, not an existing character. Realy frustrating.

Hello Ronnie 075

I have zero knowledge of AIML so I can not help you there.

How far along are you on memory, scripts, and wildcards?


Onec you become an advanced AI Script user, you will be able to program bots offline at an amazing rate.

Soon you'll discover tricks that you never thought of with regular AI coding.

Good Luck

Thank you. I got past that hurdle. Don't know how. There is terrible lag. But one thing I noted is inconsistent behaviour with "seek" - I ask the same question over and over for test purposes. In the first "forking" "seek" works at 90% of cases, at second forking in 50% of cases, at third forking in 10% of cases. Never works at fourth forking - always default to silly. I have not mastered emotions yet, but this can be interesting. Managed to set (name), so if I say my name is Ronnie, it would call me that. Otherwise it is always Ronnie075, even though it should recognise me. My name is stored in bot's logterm memory.

I am sorry for terminology, I am not a programmer.

Thank you again for good wishes.

Are you using debug mode for these tests?

It's been awhile since I really tested anything. Everyone else here will tell you to test in debug mode, so I will do the same.

People will also tell to keep re-reading the book of AI until it makes sense.

All of my questions or problems are no longer found in that thing so I must make things up as I go.

I've only been here a year, but I am sure the seasoned members here have easier answers than I do

To add your own picture to a bot you have to go through the Professor. You have to have a development of at least 1000. The flash face allows you a lot of leeway. Get it asap if you plan on having one. It is very hard to go back through a bot and add the coding for the facial expressions.
If you go to the x-Keywords and fill them all in you will have a good working bot that will handle hello, good buy, gossip, etc.

Thank you everybody. I learned to use emotions now, and Oh, my G*d! This is much more powerfull than anything, I mean anything, I can do in AIML! I am a convert now.

Chain of "seeks" now also works when I replaced keywords with (*) - this worked up to the 4th link or forking (not sure of the correct terminology). AIscript I used only once to capture names, will look deaper into it. The connection is less laggy today, my mood is better (I am off work sick with flu and had high fever yesterday) and I can think much clearer today.

Regarding the picture, I restarted the project and added one.