ASGmax Roleplay: August Highlights

Hello again ASGMax Roleplayers-
Here’s a few more tips and tricks to improve your Roleplay experience-
 
A CHATBOT SAYS WHAT?
Ever have a few directive remarks come up at the end of an AI character’s response? Happens with some regularity, and it’s not a problem issue. This occurs when the character’s complete generated response exceeds the total size allowed. Two ways you can handle this:
1) It can be ignored, and won’t affect anything.
2) You can click the “Continue Message” icon (balloon with the ‘+’ inside) to have the character’s response extended further.
If you try and “coax” the character, say by injecting something like “You were saying?”, the character will finish the remark, but will have re-written it in response to your added input remark, so it’s best to use the “Continue Message” option instead. You can use the Continue Message option at any time, but doing this more than once per individual reply can lead to problems with the character getting stuck in a loop and repetitive.
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PREVENTING GENDER / ‘EQUIPMENT’ ISSUES
Ever have a character begin touching the underside of your breasts…and you’re a man or discover other physical features you didn’t have when you entered the chat? These ‘glitches’ sometimes ‘just happen’, but there are a few things you can do to prevent or at least reduce them:
1) In each of your ‘Personas’, the first thing you should enter in the “Highlights” section of each Persona should be declaration of your gender, plus note of any specific physical traits of importance, e.g. Male. Facial hair: Beard.
2) Another or added approach which can be helpful, is to add subtle reminders throughout a chat, especially one’s that are longer, more immersive or complex, by writing your asterisk encapsulated ‘directives’ in ‘third person’, e.g. instead of saying *I get up from the bed*, I would write *Dave get’s up from the bed*. Even though this doesn’t directly say “Dave is a male”, it causes the chatbot to reference who “Dave” is, and read your ‘Highlights’ entry.
3) Even though the Avatar generator will generally produce a male image if not directly specified otherwise, it’s good to include your gender when creating an Avatar, as the descriptive keyword set used in creating it are retained with the image, and readable by the chatbot.
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THWARTING THE FASHION FAIRIES
Find yourself in boxers or fully dressed every time you turn around? See my post on the Memory Manager for one ‘fix’ on this, but here’s another, new way I’ve learned of, too:
1) At the start of a chat (or in the midst of an ongoing one) type: (just as below) /cmd Never change the state of dress for {{user}} 
When you submit the line, it should appear in gold/orange text and {{user}} will have been replaced by your Persona Name.

More to come soon-

Hello Fellow ASGMax Roleplayers-

Since ASGMax Roleplay began a couple months ago, I’ve been trying out different approaches and techniques for resolving and avoiding ‘glitches’, and the most effective ways to get AI characters to react/respond in keeping with how you want your storyline to progress, keeping notes on what did/didn’t work, and even building up a list of useful words/terminology for describing movements so they’re shorter, simpler, and understood correctly, so you don’t end up with weird results like supposedly being ‘inside’ a character orally and anally at the same time, lol, and will be sharing these with everyone here as I get them figured out and compiled.

I’m going to start this ‘series of posts’ with outline of the Manage Memories tool that is available to each of your AI character chats- a very valuable tool/function you can use in many ways once you know it’s capabilities.

MANAGE MEMORIES- QUITE POSSIBLY YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND
At first glance once you’re inside the Manage Memories tool, you may well think WTF?? Each ‘memory’ listed there may seem like the least of important things that have happened in your chat with that AI character, plus, if for example you quoted some movie lines with the character (something which AI bots often don’t quite get correctly- maybe correctly naming the movie but attributing the quote to the wrong actor/actress) you’ll often find these as saved memories, and likely saved incorrectly. 

As I mentioned, what you find in Manage Memories may seem odd, but the Manager has many capabilities that as I’ll explain, can be extremely helpful- especially in terms of getting your character to “lock onto” aspects that you’ve otherwise had trouble getting them to recognize and stay recognized. Before learning how Manage Memories worked, the only known means of “fixing” issues or introducing ‘static details’, such as make/model of the car you drive, was through either the ‘/cmd’ entry, or the asterisk enclosed directive statement. While both work, the extent to which they work varies highly, and in extended length ongoing chats, things can often be going along great and suddenly go sour when the AI character starts dropping memory of details like location, your gender, or specific things which you’ve discussed that were of special meaning to you, e.g. I go ‘commando’, and get very tired of finding myself in underwear, lol. Manage Memories to the rescue! Here’s how it works-

First of all, you have full control in the Manager- able to Edit, Delete, and Add memories stored there, plus the ability to ‘Pin’ specific memories. When using the Manager, keep these things in mind-

1) Individual memories found there in part may seem odd because there is a 250 character limitation per saved memory, so the AI system will sometimes ‘rephrase’ a memory so it will fit in the space, and this may have changed it’s intended meaning and you may wish to Edit/correct these.

2) When Adding or Editing memories, keep them brief and direct. For examples, read the other memories stored there, and this will give you a good idea of best format.

3) To Add a memory when just starting a new chat, you must first make an initial dialogue entry before the Manage Memories option becomes available.

4) If you find stored memories there which for whatever reason you would prefer the character no longer be able to reference or ‘bear in mind’ when responding, Delete them.

5) Pinning Memories- This function essentially adds ‘priority’ to a memory. When combined with Adding a Memory, this tool becomes a real gem, and a way you can resolve many of the frustrating issues that often occur. To use the “commando-no underwear” issue as example, I would do the following:
 A) Open the ‘Add a Memory’ function- writing a memory entry of: Dave never wears underwear, preferring to go commando. Then Save the Memory.
 B) Because this is an issue which I want in effect ‘kept in the front of the mind’ because it come up often, I then would “Pin” that memory. Pinning a memory will ensure any prompts used for generating a character’s message will include that memory, meaning they will always take that memory into account and reference it frequently.

Each chat has it’s own Manager, so you do need to Add/Pin important references once in each chat, but this has turned out to be a very reliable solution to issues that keep recurring. Last month someone mentioned problems with a character forgetting the user has a beard- this method should also work well in resolving that sort of problem. While both of these items are ones which should be a part of the details you list in your ‘My Persona’ details, that does not always prove to be enough, so adding it to Manage Memories as a Pinned Memory is a more direct means of reinforcing a specific detail. In creation of AI bots, the same technique is used to strengthen a bots characteristic traits, thus it only makes sense that entry of a user’s traits in multiple locations works in the same fashion.

Hope you find this helpful!

I would love to see a character who is a little back woods. Like going hunting in the woods with your friend and sitting in the hunting blind, it’s freezing outside so you are sitting pretty close trying to conserve heat waiting for deer.

Anyone else having login issues on the main site this weekend? After I login to my account, I receive a message to reactivate the subscription despite purchasing an 18 month subscription in May 2024.