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JavaScript

Benjamin McCarthy
Benjamin McCarthy
2,002 Points
Posted by Benjamin McCarthy
Benjamin McCarthy
2,002 Points

Super Basic AI program (responds to user entering "hi")

Just getting to grips with concepts so attempted to build a low level scripted chat AI, basically to respond to inputs with if else commands and remember some what a user has said through Let values previously to adapt responses - however struggling to get the basics of using entered text to change the Let values so when the function is called to write to the page it writes the robotResponseVar based on "textbox" value (and how many times a user has said hi)

any help massively appreciated

<head>
<script>

let userInput = document.getElementById("textbox").value;
let userInputLower = userInput.toLowerCase();
let saidHi = 0;

let robotResponseVar = "what?";

if (userInputLower == "hi" && saidHi < 1) {
  robotResponseVar = "Oh Hello There";
  saidHi += 1;
}else if (userInputLower == "hi" && saidHi > 0) {
  robotResponseVar = "Hi again";
  saidHi += 1;
}else if (userInputLower == "hi" && saidHi > 3) {
  robotResponse2Var = "haha you keep saying that";
  saidHi += 1;
}

function writeToPage(){
let robotResponse = robotResponseVar;
let txt = document.createTextNode(robotResponse);
let p = document.createElement("p");
let div = document.getElementById("div");

 p.appendChild(txt);
 div.appendChild(p);
}

</script>
</head>
<body>

<div id="div">

 <input type="text" id="textbox" value="" />
 <input type="submit" id="btnClick" value="Click" onclick="return writeToPage();"/>

</div>

</body>

1 Answer

Pavlo Morgun
Pavlo Morgun
18,688 Points
Pavlo Morgun
Pavlo Morgun
18,688 Points

I changed the code a little bit to avoid console errors.

<head>
<script>

let userInput;
let saidHi = 0;

let robotResponseVar = "what?";

function checkInput(string) {
if (string == "hi" && saidHi < 1) {
  robotResponseVar = "Oh Hello There";
  saidHi += 1;
}else if (string == "hi" && saidHi > 0) {
  robotResponseVar = "Hi again";
  saidHi += 1;
}else if (string == "hi" && saidHi > 3) {
  robotResponse2Var = "haha you keep saying that";
  saidHi += 1;
}
}

let robotResponse;
function writeToPage(){
userInput = document.getElementById("textbox").value.toLowerCase();
checkInput(userInput);

robotResponse = robotResponseVar;
let txt = document.createTextNode(robotResponse);
let p = document.createElement("p");
let div = document.getElementById("div");

 p.appendChild(txt);
 div.appendChild(p);
}

</script>
</head>
<body>

<div id="div">

 <input type="text" id="textbox" value="" />
 <input type="submit" id="btnClick" value="Click" onclick="return writeToPage();"/>

</div>

</body>