Teaching Sporks
| Table of Contents |
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| Teaching Sporks a new Phrase |
| Adding to an existing phrase |
| Making the bot forget a phrase |
| Other Commands |
| Words Sporks Recognises |
The bot will learn from discord servers via declarative statements. For example:
If Sporks does not already know a response for 'demonstrating', then Sporks will learn this and put it into his database, so that if someone else later on asks about demonstrating, it will answer:
Certain facts are locked against changing, but out of the over four million facts in the database the number locked is in single figures, so you are unlikely to encounter many:
As well as learning from "a is b" phrases, it will also learn from "a was b" and many others. For a full list of which phrases Sporks will recognise, see Words Sporks Recognises.
You can teach Sporks additional information about an existing phrase by saying that something is "also", "too" or "as well". For example:
If Sporks has already learned a response to a phrase or key word, he will not wipe the old response to learn a new one. To do this you must first make Sporks forget the old phrase. You can make Sporks forget any phrase, as shown below:
Sporks will then respond to confirm that he has forgotten the phrase, unless the phrase is locked by the bot owner.
You can ask Sporks where and how he learned a phrase by asking:
@Sporks, who told you about <keyword-here>?
He will respond by letting you know who told you the phrase and when. Note that as Sporks is nearly 20 years old, some of the responses are extremely old and will be reflected in the times and dates shown here. For example:
A status report can be obtained by asking the bot:
@Sporks status
This will show a status report like the one below:
Note that Sporks will only talk on channels, and not in private message, and will only respond when mentioned, although it will silently learn all it observes. You can change the bot to responding to all messages on a channel by using the configuration settings via the config set talkative command or alternatively dashboard.
The following list of phrase patterns are recognised by Sporks. If Sporks sees a sentence following any of these patterns he will learn from it.
Where an alias is listed, this is also accepted as an alternate spelling.
| Phrase Pattern | Example | Aliases |
|---|---|---|
<keyword> is <phrase>
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My keyboard is broken | |
<keyword> are <phrase>
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They are on their way | r |
<keyword> was <phrase>
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My friend was going out | |
<keyword> aren't <phrase>
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Those aren't right | arent |
<keyword> can <phrase>
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My dad can lift a car! | |
<keyword> can't <phrase>
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He can't do that, don't be silly | cant |
<keyword> will <phrase>
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@Brain will do that later | |
<keyword> has <phrase>
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My license has expired :( | |
<keyword> had <phrase>
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I just had to do it | |
<keyword> might <phrase>
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We might go later | |
<keyword> may <phrase>
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Support may just be able to help you |