editing Hal's questions

[willett]

Hi. I entered in a bunch of questions but the answers are not matching the questions asked.I think it is because I put in HOW and WHAT and it is confusing HAL. Can I edit the original questions I typed in by just taking out the HOW and WHAT? I don't want to have to re-type the the questions and the answers again.

[Medeksza]

You should be able to edit any line in the database using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor by double clicking on the entry you want to change, changing it, and pressing Enter.

[bobrush]

I tried this but it only remembered one of the questions!

[vonsmith]

If you are editing one of Hal's files, particularly QA files, then you have to be careful how you enter words. Sentence perspective can be from Hal's or the user's perspective depending on which type of file you are editing.

For a QA file I think (somebody correct me if I'm wrong)...

User question asked: Do you like to camp in the woods?

In a QA .brn file:
' @I like to camp in the woods.   <-- answer from Hal's perspective.
'  Do I like to camp in the woods   <-- user's question now evaluated from Hal's perspective.

When in doubt leave pronouns out of the second line of a QA file. Even if you make many entries like the one above in several of the .brn QA type files you may not get answers that you expect. Hal has a rather complex way of choosing which answers he wants to use. The answer selection often seems counter-intuitive or disconnected. Hal does get better at answering after learning over a period time.

= vonsmith =

[Don Ferguson]

Hello,

Vonsmith, it sounded like you wanted some validation on that pronoun-reversal in the databases.  Yes, you have it exactly right.

Thanks for your excellent contributions, which I always enjoy.

Sincerely,

Don