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Perchance - Create a Random Text Generator

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This is a Lemmy Community for perchance.org, a platform for sharing and creating random text generators.

Feel free to ask for help, share your generators, and start friendly discussions at your leisure :)

This community is mainly for discussions between those who are building generators. For discussions about using generators, especially the popular AI ones, the community-led Casual Perchance forum is likely a more appropriate venue.

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For most of my time using Perchance I have mostly used the text generators and thus far I have been able to use them effectively for the most part even when we had the older model, when I gave them instructions they would at the very least attempt to follow it through. One of my favorite ones is Question This by Vionet. It's quite simple, I put information into the text box and it will generate questions and answers and I can set how many questions, answers, and the general word count that I want. Thus far it has always worked, until the recent changes. There has been no official statement about the recent performance of the text generation on the Lemmy site, Reddit, Perchance or otherwise.

So, in that regard I won't make any assumptions. But I will share my new experiences here, hopefully it can help with further development of the site.

I choose the word count, but now I rarely get 16 answers, the max word count is now often ignored, the new length is often brief, the answers which used to be very expansive are not that way anymore, if this is happening to this text generator which has a history of being very good, then I imagine others that ask specific instructions from the user are also affected as well. Question This has worked for me correctly during my entire time of using Perchance even when the website was going through updates the only problems I had was long load times or the website outages, but this recent behavior is rather bad in terms of functionality.

Though interestingly AI Hierarchical World Generator seems to have mixed performance, though I have not used that extensively since the recent changes, so, I can't really determine if that performance has gotten worse.

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[–] Windydove@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I asked Google Gemini for help on the code of Question This and it resulted in some better functionality in my opinion, you can try this one https://perchance.org/questionthisrevamped

This generator is very good for lore and world building purposes.