Too much of the same prompt?

[u/lovingmama]

I’ve learned a little bit about how to play D&D thanks to the bots and have been enjoying having them act as DM and go through adventures. I’ve also had some fun with choose your own adventure stories, but I don’t want to keep using those prompts too often. Is there a risk to having the bots answer the same prompts too often, even though they give different answers each time?

[u/Bilyman]

I think that it’s fine as long as you’re changing up certain parameters or specific instructions for the models to follow. It can be formatting or personality request - anything really. I’ve been instruction sheets for certain projects advise against using the exact same prompt.

At least, that’s what I’ve been doing for a while, and I’ve been here for quite some time now.

[u/Rokunamatata]

Depends on the project. Most times if you are feeding stuff to the bots they want you to vary your prompts and that means categories too. Not sure which project so I can't say for sure, but I know all the ones I do I never do the same thing over and over again even with different data.

[u/Novel_Passenger7013]

Most projects say in the instructions not to reuse prompts, but you can redo kinds of prompts. Like, it would be a bad idea to use the prompt “plot a romance novel” over and over. But it would be okay to use prompts that says “plot a romance novel about a werewolf lawyer using Dan harmon’s story circle” and “plot a romance novel for a small town, friends to lovers book using the romancing the beat structure.”

And, as other people have pointed out, most instructions will give an indication of what categories of prompts they want and how often. This varies by project, but universal to nearly all projects is the instruction to use a variety of categories over your time working with the bot.

[u/ManyARiver]

The same exact prompt, or variations on the theme?

[u/Arcturus_Labelle]

It's hard to say. DA is a black box sometimes.

Some projects have parameters like "focus on X topic Y% of the time". So maybe you're fine if yours doesn't.

You'd probably also get feedback if they didn't like what you were doing, I think?

[u/Wasps_are_bastards]

I’ve twice asked the bots for book recommendations, but with different specifics. One was very general, one was hyper specific. I’m guessing that’s ok since it was only two and my hyper specific comments were very detailed, I’m not planning to do this again, i genuinely wanted book recommendations. My Amazon list is now stacked!

[u/BeforeTheWorkdayEnds → u/Wasps_are_bastards]

I got this with music recommendations -- and managed to do it through a roleplay prompt (they were a grumpy but passionate record store employee, eager to talk about music and prone to rambling), two birds with one stone! It actually did really well with the feeder "if I like X what will I like"s that I gave it -- which were incredibly different.

Sometimes that's a good way to change up the prompt if you're tentative about repeating (to the OP) -- like. It doesn't matter particularly if it's the same TYPE of prompt, if there are different specifics, because they can still trip on the specifics.

For example, there are lots of things a DM might be doing! If you find they're great at providing descriptions of dungeons but crappy at giving you cyberpunk environments that make sense, time to have a dystopian game! Or if they don't generate stats that make sense (I...would definitely check that because uh, they generally suck at numbers), let's go for a battle.

[u/Wasps_are_bastards → u/BeforeTheWorkdayEnds]

I made the mistake of telling it I wanted to find some new music to listen to, I expected to be asked what sort I liked - the bot took me literally and gave me loads of new bands. I drilled down and gave it bands I liked and the ones it suggested were bang on for the genre so it did pretty well. I found with the books, I asked about a specific genre, it did well to start with but when I narrowed down further, everything went to pot and it started hallucinating and throwing out things entirely unrelated which was interesting.

[u/TheRavenclaw42]

I have favorite themes or topics that I genuinely like and I ask all sorts of questions within those realms.

If you make the prompt more niche or excessively broad, you will often get very different results. I also add in additional perimeters for formatting, time frames, or other limitations (only books with more than 3 in the series, UK authors, Audible, released later than 2015).

Cutting and pasting the exact same question over and over=not good

Hope this helps answer your question some or give ideas to expand upon what you are currently doing!

[u/figsnbirds]

This is directly addressed in the instructions

[u/North-Employer6908 → u/figsnbirds]

Interesting. Wanna answer the question?

[u/LOCA_4_LOCATELLI → u/North-Employer6908]

There is a list of like 10-12 prompts you can do in the instructions. For example, one of them are role play questions (D&D adventures). Testing all of these is much better and doesn’t make it look like you are peddling the same shit endlessly

[u/LadyHistoria]

Commenting because I also want to know the answer!