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LarsB: OK, I suppose, if it works all the time (which I doubt). But the point I was making is that sometimes the AI engine does not know the gender. Example: a guest has no gender, and it is also possible to create a bot with no gender (and if you do this there is no way to change or set the gender after the bot is created - I tried it). In such cases the only solution seems to be "if not female" and hope that a genderless agent doesn't mind being treated as male. But this syntax is not allowed.
Two responses marked "if male" and "if female" might lead to incorrect response or "Sorry, there are no valid Responses for me to choose from"

@ LarsB: I've tried again and again with mem-rem but it still doesn't work. Need to clarify things like for example what I should write in the Aiscript initialization. Instructions are good, the BOAI is great and i'm slow in understanding. Care to help me anyway? Thanks.

kp: my name is, call me
ai script (for the kp): rem (postkey) as "name";
in responses use: (mem-name)

on the settings page in the AI script initialization box: default (name) as "name"

The BoAI has a different approach but this works well for my bots.

@Ricardo, i think conditional responses could shine here. First, establish the gender (kp:are you (a|) male?), use seeks (yes/no/xnomatch) and create a memory for each seek (rem "yes" as "ismale"), (rem "no" as "ismale"),(rem "notsure" as "ismale").
Read chapter 10 on conditional responses to use the contents of (mem-ismale) for the gender specific responses.

@Ricardo, the kp must go in one or two categories of x-keywords like xhello or xinitiate.

@ LarsB > I don't understand why my bot doesn't catch this KP: am i (p:ab-female-names). It should catch the question "am I (whatever female name in the plug-ins)?".

Yes, that should match if the plug in name is correct and the name is actually listed in the plug in. Also, is the content of the plug in correctly formatted?

@LarsB> I've brought the plug-ins from the plug-ins list, how can i check whether it is correctly formatted?

It was my understanding that the x-keywords when you first start a bot are operational. The xfavorite for my bot does not appear to be working. When asked about a favorite, the bot replies with xnone response. I thought the plugins (type) and (specific) were ready to use. The Book of AI states:

Bots are able to automatically answer any question about what their favorites are, or which kind of thing they like the best.

Is there something i have to do with the plugins before the xfavorite will work?

@seneca, the boai tells us how to create plugins, open the plug in and verify against the boai.

@Lucus, maybe i am wrong but i remember there were issues with connecting with wordnet some years ago, not sure if that has been taken care of in the mean time. Have you tried the debug page and tested xfavorites, perhaps the xnone ranks higher. The debug page will show this.

@Lars In addition to getting the xnone response, I also sometimes get the xnonsense response.
This seems to be the pertinent info from the debug:

Full message: what is your favorite movie
Joining In Knowledge Base:
Sentence (0): what is your favorite movie
Rank to beat: 0

Keyphrase Match:

Before Keyphrase Query: Time.03
minWords: 5 minLength: 27
Keyphrases found: 0

Found!
remove 17 hard match rank: your favorite movie
Total Rank: 31.5
Rank this needs to beat: 0

Knowledge Base is Highest!
starting knowledge base: 0.05
Subject: your favorite movie

Skipping - personal information

Skipping - personal information

Considered BLAB: 3 of limit: 4
Random Memory Number: 7 of 28
Memory Chance: 24 memoryLevel: 2
No Match. (use xnone)
Done with xKeyphrases: 0.06

Begin Analyze BotOutput: I was just born and cant speak well yet. Time.06
Found Stored Response Object

PreSerialize: 0.06
PostSerialize: 0.06
Recording Transcripts: 0.06
Total Time: 0.06

KEYPHRASE: xnone