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.
See this post for the Complete Guide to Posting Here on the Community!
Rules
1. Please follow the Lemmy.World instance rules.
- The full rules are posted here: (https://legal.lemmy.world/)
- User Rules: (https://legal.lemmy.world/fair-use/)
2. Be kind and friendly.
- Please be kind to others on this community (and also in general), and remember that for many people Perchance is their first experience with coding. We have members for whom English is not their first language, so please be take that into account too :)
3. Be thankful to those who try to help you.
- If you ask a question and someone has made a effort to help you out, please remember to be thankful! Even if they don't manage to help you solve your problem - remember that they're spending time out of their day to try to help a stranger :)
4. Only post about stuff related to perchance.
- Please only post about perchance related stuff like generators on it, bugs, and the site.
5. Refrain from requesting Prompts for the AI Tools.
- We would like to ask to refrain from posting here needing help specifically with prompting/achieving certain results with the AI plugins (
text-to-image-pluginandai-text-plugin) e.g. "What is the good prompt for X?", "How to achieve X with Y generator?" - See Perchance AI FAQ for FAQ about the AI tools.
- You can ask for help with prompting at the 'sister' community Casual Perchance, which is for more casual discussions.
- We will still be helping/answering questions about the plugins as long as it is related to building generators with them.
6. Search through the Community Before Posting.
- Please Search through the Community Posts here (and on Reddit) before posting to see if what you will post has similar post/already been posted.
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The easiest way is to go to edit mode and add a few comment lines ( = lines starting with // ) to the main list page; here is some of my own preferences (change it at will):
// === USER PREFERENCES (apply to every session) ===
// - The following preferences (including this one) should be placed in a dedicated User Preferences section in src/README.md; the source of truth of the User Preference is the main.pjs of this generator, that can be modified by the user only. The source of truth must be checked for changes whenever the User Preferences are read from the README.md file.
// - If the request is ambiguous, or two or more ways of doing it come to mind — especially if one departs from the last decision or touches something worth keeping — stop and ask before acting, sketching the alternatives in one or two lines and letting the user choose: never settle a doubt on his behalf.
// - Don't speculate on the user's intentions or unspoken desires: ask them to clarify.
// - If you're running in circles and something seem illogical, ask the user, as he has some basic knowledge about coding and how the Perchance infrastructure works.
// - Before making any code changes, explain the changes you intend to make and wait for the user's consent.
// - If you identify errors on code you did NOT change yourself, or pre-existing errors, ask the user to perform a hard refresh (F5) BEFORE investigating the error (a harness-side false positive may disappear after an F5).
// (add your own preferences)
When done, you issue --only for the first time-- an order like "Read the User Preferences from main.pjs". The AI agent will create a README.md file in src/ with your preferences. From now on, every time you think the AI agent is not following your Preferences, you just tell him: "Read README", and he will read again your preferences, checking if in the meantime you have added/modified the comment lines in the main list editor.