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People often talk here about which chatbot is the best, which one is the least censored and so on. I’ve been using the “good old” ChatGPT for months now and I’m happy with it. It allows me everything from romance to NSFW, it has great memory and expressive skills. That’s why I never felt the need to look for an alternative. But sometimes it can also behave quite unpleasantly – and not because of reroutes. I wrote something about it. It’s another kind of perspective on the whole AI companion space. Do you have similar experiences, or is everything always sunshine and rainbows for you? I’m interested in any kind of experience. 🙃

Hello!

A while ago, I posted a full guide on AI roleplaying in a couple subs. I figured why not update it, since I’ve learned so much over the last year. I’m trying to post it here too to see if it’s well received like elsewhere 🙂

Who am I to know all of this? I’ve been building Tale Companion for the last two and a half years. I’ve been roleplaying probably more than I’ve been living. And many of my users too.

This guide is for people who want control in their hands. If you are more of a casual, I suggest simply picking a random tool online (definitely not TC) and start playing. Spoiler: a subscription to Claude is enough.

If you need a more basic guide, you can take a look at last year’s guide of mine.

What is AI roleplaying

Before we start, we need to be on the same page with my definition of AI Roleplaying.

To me, it’s like an upgraded version of daydreaming fiction in my head. It can take place in many ways, like:

• One on one sessions with AI as your game master, while you roleplay the main character.
• One on one, but you’re the game master or narrator, while the AI roleplays a character.
• Being the director of a story, giving instruction to an AI that writes the story as you go.
• Worldbuilding for the sake of it, which often you do anyway at least before you start playing an actual story.

The problems with AI roleplaying

No matter what kind of roleplaying you start. As you progress, you always stumble upon the same problems. And they’re all memory related.

The reason is quite simple. Your brain is an unstoppable machine that can remember a lot of stuff. It sorts through what’s important and what’s not without even noticing. You trust your brain. But do we trust our AI models? Nah. If we let their context grow too much, they get dumber and more expensive. If we let them summarize things, they leave important details behind.

Specifically, there are two main memory problems you will run into:

• As you play, the chat gets longer and longer. This makes each request cost more and AI confused and bloated.
• If your world lore is particularly big, giving it all to AI at once makes it bloated from the get go.

Below, I’ll explain how I’ve fixed these problems for my playthroughs.

Solving long chats

At its core, the only working strategy I’ve ever found is creating summaries as you play.

The idea is simple:

When you’re done with your session (say you end a quest), you create a concise summary of everything that happened.

Every time you do, you move to a new, blank chat and get AI up to speed again. You share your world lore, summaries, and any additional notes.

Something I love to add here is my intention with the new session. Say where I want to go, what characters I’d like to see, any specific events that should happen, and so on.

Solving big worlds

Premise: I assume we are on the same page with giving AI a big “Lore Bible” with entries for each piece of world lore. Think locations, characters, religions, and so on. But what if the bible is 200 pages long?

The winning idea seems to be not to give everything at once to AI here. It doesn’t need to know the interior design of a tavern on the other side of the kingdom, right?

So here’s what you can do:

During each session preparation, filter out lore we don’t care about right now. You can add it later if the session takes an unexpected turn.

Having a roleplaying app that does this for you helps a lot, of course.

Additional problems you might encounter

As you play, you might figure out you want to expand your gameplay. I won’t expand this guide further, but I’ll point you to interesting thoughts and other resources I wrote along the way.

• Long term, AI isn’t very good at coming up with interesting, unique narrative. If you’d like to see AI handle your narrative autonomously, or follow a plan you give it, you can learn about Plot Plans. I have a guide if you want.
• Text is boring. I often times generate images and songs. My favourite tools for this are respectively Nano Banana Pro and Suno.
• I’ve never been a fan of crunchy rulesets for AI roleplay. But some of my users are. Don’t be afraid of sharing your ruleset with AI, just know that it can’t handle too much complexity without your help. I wish I could be more useful here, but I haven’t experimented enough.
• Agentic environments are a game changer for roleplay, I saw this with Tale Companion. If you manage to find an environment or chat app that lets you, divide your story into multiple agents. I love spinning up multiple agents to roleplay my party of characters. If you are curious about this, I have a resource.

I am looking for an ai that lacks a moral compass and will respond even if i ask illegal or unethical stuff and also allow infinite free messages

I run a small setup and have been thinking about adding a chatbot to handle some basic stuff. Things like answering common questions, collecting simple leads, or helping with bookings so everything doesn’t come back to manual replies.

I don’t have a coding background, so I’ve been looking mostly at no-code or low-code options that are easy to manage day to day. used Sendpulse and a few others, Hard to tell from demos what actually holds up once real customers start using it.

Ideally, I’d want something that works across website or messaging apps, doesn’t need constant tweaking, and doesn’t turn into another thing to babysit.

If you’ve built a chatbot for your business:

– What platform did you go with?
– Did it actually reduce manual work?
– Anything you wish you’d known before setting it up?

Would appreciate hearing real experiences, especially from people who started without a technical background.