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I have nothing against the usual 2d avatar styles from that genre, but I’m looking for something more western less cartoon like.

All of the ones I’ve tried so far have been absolute garbage. Such as it feeling forced or it not listening to me. Wanted to see if there was anything decent out there?

Aaj kal is ka zamana hai tu ap is skill ko seekh rahy hain ya nhi. Agar seekh rahy ho tu kaha tak ap seekh chuky. Zra apny apny ideas share karo

Here’s a pattern I bet a lot of you know. Your character finds out their closest ally has been lying to them. Huge moment. And by the end of that same scene, they’ve confronted the ally, had the tearful conversation, forgiven each other, and moved on. Three sessions’ worth of story, squashed into fifteen lines.

I’ve been roleplaying with AI pretty much daily for about three years, and for a long time this was my biggest frustration. It wasn’t memory or prose. It was pacing. Everything got introduced and resolved in the same breath.

The reason is pretty simple once you see it. These models are trained to be helpful, and helpful means solving problems. In a coding task, that’s great. In a story, it means every conflict gets fixed the moment it shows up, so nothing ever builds.

Here’s what fixed it for me, roughly in order of how much it helped.

1. Name the threads that stay open

This one surprised me most, because it’s so simple. Before a scene (or as a standing note), say out loud which threads are supposed to stay messy:

The tension between Mira and Kael stays unresolved in this scene. They're still circling the issue. The mystery of the missing letters should deepen, not get answered. This scene is about suspicion growing. The confrontation comes later. 

If you don’t tell the model to leave threads open, it’ll tie them all up. When you do tell it, it respects that surprisingly well. I think of it as a short list of things that should stay unfinished.

A standing version I keep in my main prompt:

Unresolved tensions carry over between scenes. A scene should usually end with more tension than it started with, not less. 

2. Complicate instead of resolve

This one comes from screenwriting and transfers perfectly. Every scene should make things worse or make them different. The question you ask changes from “how does this get fixed?” to “how does this get more complicated?”

When a problem comes up, add a complication rather than a solution. If my character tries to fix something, it partly works but creates a new problem. 

After I added this, problems stopped evaporating. They evolved, and that’s where the story lives.

3. “Yes, but” and “No, and”

Stolen from improv and tabletop games. When your character attempts something:

• Yes, but: it works, but something goes wrong or something new surfaces.
• No, and: it fails, and something else gets worse too.

Plain “yes” and plain “no” are dead ends. These two generate the next scene for you.

When my character takes action, respond with "yes, but" or "no, and" consequences. Clean success or clean failure should be rare. 

If you only add one line from this post, make it this one. It’s done more for my pacing than anything else.

4. Tell the AI what phase of the story you’re in

The model has no idea whether you’re in act one or act three. Every scene starts at the same emotional baseline, which is why stories feel flat even when individual scenes are good. You have to be the architect here. AI is a great builder and a terrible planner.

It doesn’t need a full outline, just the temperature of the story right now:

We're in the early phase. Conflicts are emerging but nobody confronts them yet. Keep things simmering. We're near the midpoint. Tensions surface and alliances get tested. We're building to the climax. Everything should feel like it's converging. 

I keep one line like this as a persistent note and update it whenever the story moves. That’s why I put a “story state” note into Tale Companion (the platform I built) that the AI reads before every reply, and the phase line lives there for me. But you can do exactly the same thing in an author’s note, a pinned message, or just at the top of your next message in any app.

5. Plant seeds, pay them off later

Good writers set things up long before they pay off. AI almost never does this on its own, but it’s happy to when you ask:

Include a small detail in this scene that could matter later. Have someone mention something offhand that connects to the bigger plot. 

Then, chapters later: “Remember the broken clock in the tower from the first chapter? It matters now.” Suddenly the story feels like it was planned all along, even though it wasn’t. Write the seeds down somewhere outside the chat, because they won’t survive a long context on their own.

6. Vary the tempo

Pacing is about variation as much as speed. All fast is exhausting, all slow is boring. Tension is the inhale and release is the exhale, and you need both.

This scene is a breather. Slow, character-focused, no plot movement. Now things speed up. Short sentences, quick cuts. This conversation should feel long and uncomfortable. Don't rush to the point. 

The rhythm I use in a lot of my setups is one quiet character moment for every loud action one. After a big fight, I’ll ask for a campfire scene. After a calm stretch, I let things ramp up again. The contrast makes both land.

Bonus: protect the scenes you’re actually here for

Pet peeve of mine: AI loves cutting away from bonding moments to get back to “the plot.” If those moments are the point for you, guard them:

Stay in character bonding moments until I move us to the next story beat. 

A quick test

Look back at your last few scenes and count how many conflicts were introduced and resolved in the same scene. If it’s most of them, the story is sprinting when it should be jogging.

Next session, protect just one thread. Let it sit. Let your characters carry it into the next scene without talking about it. That alone changes how the whole story feels.

Curious what others do here. Does anyone have a good way to stop the model from rushing slow-burn romance or mystery plots? Those are the two where I still have to keep my hand on the brakes the most.

Do you use AI chatbots for everyday tasks? Please share your thoughts! We are researchers from the University of Toronto conducting a study to understand how people use and think about conversational AI tools in their daily lives.

Who can participate?

• If you are 18 years of age or older.
• If you use online AI chatbots for everyday writing, advice, searching, or assistance.
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Does anyone know what AI model was used for chatbots of AIExotic website?

I added 18+ tag because of the nature of the website.

For a content creator.

I found Spicychat AI and I’m using that right now, is there any better ones that are free like that?

I can’t stand roleplaying with Gemini anymore. It just went from bad to awful overnight. He started sending me super short messages that kept getting shorter and shorter, and he stopped responding altogether. He just copies the current situation without ever continuing the roleplay. It’s so bad. It annoy me so much. So I’d like to know an alternative for roleplaying with a free plan that has no message limits, where I can write an unlimited amount.

Let’s unite and ask the developers to bring back the original Hi.AI! 💙

Does anyone else miss the original blue Hi.AI app?

I know many of us had meaningful conversations, created our own characters, and spent a lot of time in this app. For some of us, those chats were more than just messages — they were stories and memories we don’t want to lose.

The app stopped working, and it feels like we were simply left without answers. But what if we tried to do something together?

I want to invite all former Hi.AI users to unite and make one collective request to the developers. Let’s ask them to bring back the original app, restore its servers, and give us access to our old conversations again.

We don’t know whether restoration is possible, but staying silent guarantees that our voices won’t be heard. If enough former users speak up, perhaps the developers will at least notice how much this app still means to people.

If you want the original blue Hi.AI back, please join us. Share this post, tell other former users about it, and let’s gather as many people as possible before contacting the developers together.

We aren’t asking for a completely new app with the same name. We want the original Hi.AI back — with our characters, conversations, and the experience we remember.

Maybe, together, we can make them hear us. 💙