u/FarGround1468

made a side character weeks ago, just meant to be a one scene shopkeeper, and now i genuinely look forward to checking in on her like she is a friend. caught myself feeling actually bad when a storyline put her in a rough spot. it is a character i wrote, i know how this works, and i still got invested. kinda love it and kinda worried about myself lol. do you get attached like this or do you keep it more detached

kinda forgot how nice it is when the AI actually remembers stuff. lol. I was going through an old chat i abandoned months ago and it's wild how far things have come back then. Like the bot would forget my character's name by message three lol. Memory systems still have their moments though. Sometimes it'll randomly mix up details like my hair color or what we were doing a few messages back. But when it works it's actually kind of impressive? idk maybe i'm just easily impressed but i spent like an hour today just testing how long it could keep a conversation thread going. Anyways, just a random thought while i was reminiscing. The model could definitely use some fine-tuning but it's nice to see progress.

I've been tweaking my context template and system prompts for a few weeks now, and I keep running into replies that read like they swallowed a thesaurus. Every character I talk to suddenly describes the sunset as 'the molten amber of fading day' or their thoughts as 'a cascade of crystalline reflections.' It kills immersion fast, especially when the character was established with simple modern dialogue. I've tried lowering temperature and bumping up repetition penalty, but it still creeps in after a few turns. Any tips on steering models back to natural speech patterns without breaking personality?