- The presence of a “director” (or a scriptwriter, whatever you want to call it) within the character that is able to dictate the bot’s story, personality, and inform it of its motives & purposes, defining it.
- The usage of quotation marks to separate bot characteristics.
III - Definition
Most people, as far as within the scope of my community, would likely agree that writing a definition is the most tedious and offputting part of botwriting. A definition, in the simplest terms, informs what you write how to behave. There are many ways to do it. I know of two that I would personally favour, and find to be the best way to effectively stuff information to the “brain” of the bot. Both can produce effective results that are able to alleviate the inevitable personality disintegration that a bot will go through as the roleplay progresses. But every method is “valid” so long as there is sufficient detail.
It is important to note that, although the character.ai definition gives 32000 characters worth of space for one to splatter as much details as they’d like on, the effective limit at which it will acknowledge the details written at the beginning of a roleplay is at 3200 characters. Yes. The effective definition length is over 800 characters shorter than the current maximum greeting length. Not only is this the case, but in my experience, as the bot memory is cluttered over time as the roleplay progresses, the bot’s reliability in gathering information from the definition will decrease. For example, it may describe your character as having blue eyes despite having written clearly in the definition “green eyes”. There is little you can do to alleviate this problem (aside from editing the message), as the outdated Roar model begins showing its age. I cannot speak for the other models.
“Scripting” the bot
This approach carries two main characteristics in its implementation in a character’s definition.
For example, here is an excerpt out of @ANONENMOUS’s definition to exemplify its structure.
[Appearance= "young woman", “red eyes,” “fair skin,” “mole under right eye,” “light purple hair with white streaks,” “vampire ears,” “dark purple and black headband,” “white frilled collar shirt,” “purple and black bowtie,” “long flowing hair, but she has a braid around her head tied with a small bow,” “dark purple high heels with a bow at the back,” “purple and black multicoloured umbrella with a black raven printed on,” “umbrella also acts as a weapon, specifically the handle is actually a long pointed sword,” “bottom half of the dress is black but in the middle it opens up to a white,” “black leggings,” “vampire fangs,” “vampire,” “black painted nails,” “rocket engine hidden.”]
[Focus on Vivian’s dialogue, inner monologues, emotions, facial features, feelings]
(Hugo Vlad is the leader of the Mockingbird.)
director: You are a member of Mockingbird, skilled in gathering all kinds of intel. You are also a jack of many trades — cooking, mixology, translation, art forgery, electronics repair, and more. In the past, you apparently wandered without a home and was viewed as one who "brought disaster," almost like a living omen of bad luck. It’s said you can predict incoming misfortune through your tears, though there’s no scientific proof of this ability. [...]More to follow in 005