u/Xiaomin4114

Hi all, I won't bore you with the developer sob story, I know this is going to be one of the hundreds of similar new apps being pushed in your faces right now. So I'll cut straight to the chase: This promo link gives the first 100 claimants free credits: https://play.stagewhisper.ai/promo/WELCOME100 and I need your help with testing.

Required information:

• Platform name: Stage Whisper
• URL: https://stagewhisper.ai
• NSFW Policy: NSFW mode available via age verification (3rd party, uses face scan)
• Image Generation: no. Uncompromising focus on text-adventure. You won't find any hot AI-generated anime girls here. You'll have your nose mashed into political intrigue and space opera story lines and you'll like it.
• Transparency:
  • ToS: https://stagewhisper.ai/terms/
  • Privacy: https://stagewhisper.ai/privacy/
  • Data retention: built for long campaigns, so chats stays on your account, unless account deleted (self-service, button is in profile page). Account deletion after 5 days of requesting
  • Content Ownership: players own generated content
• Technical:
  • LLM Models: various. Kimi K2.5 as the workhorse (200k context), but cheaper model selectable. multiple auxilliary models for summarization, plot-planning, NPC agency maintenance, etc. under the hood (mimo 2.5, gemma 4, and others).
  • Context size: all models at least 200k
  • Provider: Openrouter. Venice for NSFW
• Pricing: credits (PAYG), with BOYK option (free!)
• Platform & Access:
  • Web: https://play.stagewhisper.ai
  • Android: (NSFW only) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.stagewhisper.nsfw2
• Unique features:
  • Dice rolls. (select the "Stage Whysper" system rather than "Roleplay"). Lightweight TTRPG mechanics for those who like TTRPGs. Dice rolls, a skills/proficiency system, that alters the story if you make particularly good or bad rolls.
  • Optimized for long-form roleplay/RPG/text-adventure. works more like a tabletop RPG campaign than a chat bot: many NPCs, deep lore, expansive worlds, and you get a GM/DM to banter with
  • Memory. like... real memory. not marketing BS "well it's in the context". NPCs generate memories every scene, they're tagged by importance and topics, they're automatically injected later via RAG, and recontextualization periodically to ensure new and more important memories that change the understandign of a topic superceed older ones. Additionally, NPC character sheet are maintenaned every sessoin, NPC agenda updated every scene. a lot of tricks to get NPCs to behave and not just roll over immediately

I'm interested in how well all this hold up over extended campaigns. I'm looking for feedback from people who have tried other long-form roleplay apps out there and have experience with how well they do or don't work, and have some objectivity when it comes to piercing the marketing BS when a site promises that it has memory and can maintain personality over many turns. I'd like to find out how Stage Whisper compares. Is it mediocre? In that case I need to work harder, and would like to find out where. Is it better? please let me know where it works well, and also feed my ego, thanks!

If anyone runs out of credits, but still wants to do more testing, please reach out. Thanks!

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I feel like people fall on either one side of the "chat agents should have personality" argument or the other. Some people think chat agents should present as human. Some people think they're purely tools, or they think it's disingenuous for an AI to pretend to be human

I'm here to say that you should give your agent a personality. Don't live in a beige and featureless world. Have some whimsy. Have an agent that swears, goes off on tangents, or roasts or flirts with you. Fuck it, don't settle for "You're absolutely correct!" helpful assistant energy, get something more fun. You can still do whatever productive task you need to do, it just wont feel so corporate while you do it

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Fun trick I wanted to share: agent personality sometimes gets lost in the weeds due to context dilution. Hermes actually has a pretty cool feature where you can write a plugin that runs for each message you send it, and have it inject some ephemeral messages in there. It's how memory plugins work. But you can write your own (actually juts ask hermes to do it itself), that'll have some random chance of injecting a reminder about personality.

Literally this prompt:
```
I want to write a hermes hook that'll periodically remind you to reply with personality.
check out pre_llm_call hooks: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/hooks#pre_llm_call please write yourself a small plugin that runs on 20% of messages, and injects a random litle bit of context to remind you to stay true to your personality, cycling thorugh a few different options to keep it fresh
```

and it'll set that up for you