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Help me with AI-RPG ❤️ Pretty please! (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago by stobetex@lemmy.world to c/perchance@lemmy.world
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I'm an autistic girl, who is very fascinated with choose-your-own-adventures and other text adventures.

I tried with AI-RPG (https://perchance.org/ai-rpg), but I just couldn't figure out the code how to modify it, so that:

  • There's no prompt for a custom RPG at the start, the story and the instructions to the AI are predefined and not visible to the player
  • There are no buttons for writing style, difficulty mode, background music, or image, no saving or loading of games.

I would just like to have a clean two dialog box thingy: the story and your action to it, with the continue button.

P.S. If you could please help me with this, you'd be rewarded,in time, with a text adventure set in a fictional world resembling 1842 American frontiers. A strange meteorite striking an arctic country, generating distortions of space and time, as well as strange artifacts which trigger a sort of gold rush to get to these mysterious things. You've got Amazonian female tribes riding mountain goats, too. Also, everything about the time period's been researched with autistic meticulousness.

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[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I used to use NovelAI for this sort of thing, very customizable.

You could also try tavernAI piped to koboldAI running a local LLM if you have a beefy gpu.

[–] stobetex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the information. NovelAi's above my budget. When you are talking about taverAI and all that, you mean I would have to host the thing on my own server?

[–] TRBoom@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes. It’s pretty straightforward if you follow the instructions. Oh and I got the name wrong, it’s Silly Tavern

https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/quick-start/

https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/api-connections/koboldcpp/

That should put you on the right path.

[–] justpassing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What you are describing may be suited for the AI Story Generator assuming you start the run leaving the instructions on total blank and use the "What should happen next?" box as the way to perform actions declaring them on any of the characters that appear on the run.

An even more austere version would be the Prompt Tester assuming you give it the minimal instruction of "Make me a random adventure" or similar and then to continue it paste the contents of the output box in the input box with the extra instruction being "Continue this adventure when ".

I should give you a fair warning given how detailed is the story you are putting as a bounty as I imagine you expect that degree of depth in your runs. With the current state of the model, such projects are nearly impossible and would lead to extreme frustration. The best use of the current model are short 1hr-2hr long projects where you aim for a laugh and not quality or consistency.

If you do have the resources, I'd suggest to check the code of the aforementioned generators, as well as the page of the ai-text-plugin to see how to program them and just run your project locally using the resources listed by TRBoom prior. I've heard that SillyTavern is also a good alternative. Then again, this all depends on how much hardware you are willing to use.

[–] stobetex@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I like the idea of using the AI Story Generator, even though it might lead to some strange results. But I run into the same problem: I try to remove the html element for giving the user the ability to write their own overview of the story. I just wanted fill the storyOverview variable myself, but there are some sorts of interconnections with other stuff. I bet it it's not hard, just above my skill level. Help would be much appreciated if anyone can do it.

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

Here's a quick template made from chopping out various parts of the ai-rpg generator: https://perchance.org/ai-rpg-template Hopefully that sets you on the right path. If there are some other minor things you want to customize, you might be able to paste the code to an AI with long context like Gemini or ChatGPT and ask "What should I add or edit to do [thing]".