the frickbear's bot i've been sleeping on

it's not terribly impressive, i guess i kinda just lost interest- i did try to make a separate vanny bot though

would you believe it, it's very hard to capture game mechanics and translate them into a pattern that an LLM can follow along with- the {{user}} would probably have to do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of guiding the bot

it's not like the LLM can support the plot either, since frickbears 3 came out very recently- it's kind of a lose-lose situation

one of the main things i tend to struggle with is creating example messages- it's a very time-consuming process, and i'm not always sure of how to go about it that wouldn't involve more AI (recycling AI generated text is almost always bad for the writing quality of the bot)

it's hard to write bots, i guess- not because it's hard to write things, but because the LLM doesn't know how to interpret it, it doesn't fully understand pacing or timing- lorebooks can help with this, but i don't have the knowledge to write one

i had two bots where i locked in and wrote over 2000 tokens worth of example messages, but those are private and mostly just smut (and FNAF related too, how coincidental)

on the topic of smut bots, i'd feel terribly hesitant to post them, i don't wanna be known for making mostly furry porn bots- i'm a horror guy at heart, i love the springlock suits and the axe murderers, ultrakill's disturbing lore, the sound of the caretaker's music- i'd feel hollow if my greatest efforts only ever boiled down to lust

but sometimes i feel as if that's all they ever boil down to

some guy i think about a lot is zaostoys- he's another guy on this site, i know about him through his furry bots and overdetailed CSS home page, but the bots themselves feel so hollow- like 70% of the appeal is due to the profile pictures- and the profile pictures look good for AI art, don't get me wrong, but the text itself doesn't always hold up (i'm specifically thinking of his ginger bot)

and i guess you could say that for over 80% of all bots on this site, but it just feels so much like a cycle rather than an immersive character or environment- look at the trending page with any sort of analytical detachment, and all you see are recycled ideas and appearances, utilizing pretty faces and eyeliner and big tits to grab the eye

"stepsister" this, "girl best friend" that, "she cheated on you with paul" over there- these imply that the {{user}} has a pre-defined connection to the characters, but i don't like that- i've always wanted to better represent {{user}} as a complete stranger, as it better reflects the relationship between the person behind the screen and the machine beyond it

this is also why some of my initial messages seem so strange in nature, or detached from the subject character- they don't know you, why should you know them? you're a stranger, wearing the face of a character, and i've always wanted to better reflect that

there can be exceptions, like girlfriend bots, but everybody knows people just use those for smut purposes- why go out of your way to make them so detailed when the LLM won't even acknowledge half of that info in a typical roleplay?