Re: Pickup Line Puzzle

I did find a way to do this, but it was somewhat involved and somewhat
ugly. Basically I set up a topic called PREPROCESSOR with a category
with pattern "_" to capture all input, do some pre-processing, then
restore the actual topic and SRAI the input to continue on as normal. On
"returning" from the SRAI it saves the current topic before setting it
back to PREPROCESSOR.

This allows the AIML to track the input during the pre-processing, keep
track of the input count, recognize consecutive events, etc.

Let me know if you'd like to see the aiml.

Mike


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Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 11:42:56 -0400
From: "Dr. Rich Wallace" <drwallace@...>
Subject: [alicebot-general] Pickup Line Puzzle
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I've got a puzzle for AIML writers.

Suppose I have a bot that has N pickup lines in an ultimate default
category:

<pattern>*</pattern>
<template>
<random>
<li>Pickup1</li>
<li>Pickup2</li>
...
<li>PickupN</li>
</random>
</template>

The desired goal is to make the bot respond with a different, specific
answer (not one of the pickup lines)  if the bot says any of the pickup
lines 3 times in a row:

Client: XXX
Bot: Pickup1
Client: XXX
Bot: Pickup7
Client: XXX
Bot: Pickup3
Client: XXX
Bot: I'm sorry I wasn't able to help you.  Please try calling customer
service.

Assume the bot has a lot of other AIML content so it is possible to have
lots of "normal" conversations without activating the ultimate default
category 3 times in a row.

Can someone think of a way to make the bot "break out" of the pickup
lines after 3 in a row?  Or in general, K in a row, where K is any
positive integer?


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