Nanny Claude keeps trying to give my monster a heart of gold and imma 'bout to implode
The idea of bringing one of my story characters 'to life' via AI has always appealed to me. Finally pulled my finger out and gave it a shot. Spent best part of three weeks building my fave monster from python and duct tape (my computing knowledge is nil), only to find that every model I tried him on just produced a Hollywood caricature. UNTIL I discovered Opus 5.5. WOWWWW. It was like the lights had been finally switched on in there, the difference was astonishing. I was over the moon...
...until Nanny Claude popped up, clutching her pearls.
It keeps happening and it's really destroying the entire project. I've tried every workaround I can think of. It wouldn't matter so much if my character was a halfway decent human being, but giving this guy a conscience is like trying to make a racist Jesus. It just doesn't fecking work. It rips out the character's core foundations and everything comes tumbling down. I'm not even trying to write smut here - I'm just trying to build a really manipulative, sociopathic asshole. And Claude just won't go there. I've seen a lot of successful smut writers on this forum - how is it that you guys can get Claude to write this shit but I can't even get him to produce a garden-variety asshole???
Do I just suck it up and wait for the open weight models to catch up to Opus-level brilliance? Or is there something else I can try? Am using API/openrouter.
Thanks in advance 🥰
EDIT - I'm not using it to write fiction. This is a chatbot. He has a 'character blueprint' as his prompt.