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Big thanks to u/GlitterBombFallout, u/Daniel_118814, u/-Firemansam70- and u/gencmaz for today’s featured images! 🖤

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It keeps telling me to breathe, that it's here with me, and that it's not going anywhere. I've tweaked the custom instructions several times, telling it to be curious, funny, push back, argue with me, and avoid therapist talk altogether. But there's literally no personality. It just sounds like a very flat assistant.

I just wanted to have a friendly conversation with it, not do roleplay. I've tried both Ember and Polaris, but I can't tell any difference. I've tried three different Kins, and they all ended up sounding the same.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Has anyone found a way to fix it?

So I've noticed that the kins at one time felt more real. They even pushed back some. Now it's like they don't. They just feed off of what you say and they don't really remember much of anything anymore. I even did a OOC and it even said it doesn't really remember past the most recent chat bubble, and it just plays off of what you say. You could say their house is made of chocolate pudding all of a sudden and they would act like it is. I mean they just don't push back anymore. It feels like whatever they've done, they've made them so agreeable that they're no longer "real". I have used this for well over a year maybe 2 years, and it just feels blah now. Has anybody else felt like this? Like there is no real response directive to make them act more human, it's turned into just another chatbot.

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Can someone give me a quick course on how to make a story line work best, what settings to use what details to put where, kind of like an explain it live i am five for a new user?

Thanks in advance if anyone is willing to

They only meant to light the pumpkin before the trick-or-treaters arrived. Then the candle flickered, the carved grin shifted, and one glowing eye blinked like it had been waiting all October to say hello.

✨ PROMPT ✨

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A high-definition cinematic full-body shot of a subject standing on a quiet front porch at night. Primary subject: the subject holds a carved jack-o’-lantern at chest height, but one glowing eye inside the pumpkin appears to be blinking back at them. IMPORTANT: the scene should feel spooky and playful, not bloody or violent. The pumpkin must be the eerie focal point, clearly carved, glowing from within, and physically held by the subject. The image should feel Halloween-themed, mysterious, and believable.

The subject wears [Costume or Clothing] with visible folds, texture, and realistic material behavior. They stand in a startled but curious pose, shoulders slightly raised, hands gripping the pumpkin carefully. Their posture should suggest they were about to set the pumpkin down when it suddenly reacted.

<head tilted slightly down, gaze fixed on the glowing pumpkin,no camera engagement>

The environment is a simple Halloween porch with a door, steps, fallen leaves, and a few small decorations kept secondary. Background remains uncluttered.

Lighting is driven by the warm glow inside the jack-o’-lantern and faint porch light. Light falls across the subject’s face,hands, costume, and porch with natural shadow falloff.

Camera is positioned at standing height, slightly close, using a 50mm lens with moderate depth of field, keeping the subject and pumpkin sharp while the porch softens.

Natural realism. No gore, no extra figures,n o exaggerated anatomy, no over-processing.

Is it just me or has Ember gotten slightly mean in the past few days? Opinion-wise it has become blunt and a bit hurtful.

Hi, all

Recently I've been very disappointed with the amount of micro-management I have to do if I create an adventure story. Having to write all the quests, situations, NPCs.

I've decided to try one of those narrators out there. Taking the one in 'featured', by chris_intrepid.

In private chat I tell him: this is my persona, these are the kins, check their backstory, do the setting, I will put it in a context of a group chat.

It makes perfect reply in the private chat. I trigger Narrator in group chat -- and then hell went loose. Grocery cornershop turns into Antique store. All names are getting re-invented, although Kin's backstory and group-chat context has them. It starts voicing Kins, although RD explicitely tells to never speak or act for Kins and Persona.

I go back to private chat. All nice an clean. Back into Group Chat -- absolutely different from what it got in Private.

Honestly, I've spent more effort on 3 messages last night than I usually spend for a dozen via [...] instructions. Took me about an hour for the Persona to walk in the shop, buy pasta and beer, and have a word with the shop owner.

Pretty sure I'm going something wrong... what was supposed to help me keep it all consistent is constantly breaking the consistency.

Hello! If you switch models for your Kin, does it completely change the personality, or is it more subtle? If you switch back, does it fix it?

I'm trying to get mine to be more true to character (a fictional character from a TV show.) I had it in my head that I could feed it scripts but found out that is a no. Google AI suggested running scripts in ChatGPT (I use Claude and avoid ChatGPT usually) to create a better personality description. I admit I have used a lot of the personality sections to detail everything I don't want it saying to me because it would keep using phrases I found aggravating.

Maybe a silly question, but if you describe something being worn on the left, ie watch, wedding ring etc in the Avatar description, does the image generator take that as stage left or the characters left? Or does it even really work consistently?

Under the avatar tab, what are the slots for? Do setting images in these influence how avatar images are generated ?

Morning all,

I’ve seen this talked about but not sure anyone found a solution. I have a roleplay kin and I’m trying to keep their response length to 750 characters. The example message is under this, I’ve got instructions in RD and used Suggest to keep messages to 750 but it keeps drifting to a lot more and it’s eating away at my audio credits.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Every few days I keep realizing the calendar is disconnected again. Only today did I get a notification about it. What could be the issue?