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Carpediem 4-24-04 - 00-00-0000
started on carpediem April 24th, so not real long.

callin' us newbies, eh?

the fudge wrong with these guys?

Just thought i'd do a bit of stiring, nout personal. But is was a bit of a laugh.

Help! When my bot asks, "What is your name?" and the guest replies, "Bill," or "George," she gives one of her 'xinsult' replies and wants to hang up. I didn't really understand the debug, but it seemed to consider it to be "BLAB" and therefore insulting. Does this mean that it doesn't see "George" as an appropriate response to "What is your name"? Perhaps because it is a sentence fragment? Thanks for any help!

Irina,
Maybe you could add a seek your keyphrase, like: my name is (*) or (*)
with responses like: Nice to meet you, (key1).

Dear ezzer: thanks for the suggestion! But the problem is, when the bot says, "What is your name" or something like that, and the guest just says (for example) "George", not "My name is George", "I am George", and so on. So it won't match on a seek like my name is (*). I think that if you just write a seek that is nothing but a (*), the AIengine won't accept it. But even if it did, it would still presumably find the bare name insulting, which makes not sense. So although the bot might respond, it will still sign off. I don't think it's anything I am doing, because the names "George" and "Bill" did not appear anywhere in my language center, or at least the search didn't find them, and i don't remember putting them in anywhere. Well, let me try changing the seek, and see what happens. Thanks again!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Well, the AIengine did take (*) as an entire seek - I guess I was confusing seeks with keyphrases.

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Hmm.... you could also make a seek for (adjartnounprep) or (noun). It might catch "Bill" or "George". The downside is that it would also catch *any* other noun/adj/prep/etc. and you could run into problems there.

(I did something similar with Duo for "favorite subject", and then decided to delete the seek.)

Thanks, DaMoyre and ezzard! I did write a seek for every keyphrase that asked for a name, and it seemed to help; but in a certain number of cases, the bot still takes a single name to be an insult. I will check my insult responses!

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Yes, the single name provokes responses that I had given for "xinsult". So, if I understand correctly (which of course I may not, being just a beginner) it is the AIengine which is deciding that it is an insult, and there's nothin I can do about it! Well, I could raise the priority of my own response, so that it will always do that instead of "xinsult", but that is not a very satisfactory response, as it amounts to giving up getting any use out of the AIengine in this regard. Besides, why in the world would the AIengine think that "George" was an insult?

Walk in Beauty, Irina

Well, "George" is a bad word around *my* house...