Making a ChatGPT Choose Your Own Adventure Story _builder_ was a bit too much of a challenge. Making a ChatGPT prompt to get it to tell you an interactive CYOA story was easier.
This seems to work well: gist.github.com/ianb/e6c36f3e8
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Getting it to create negative conclusions took some nudging – by default it would make everything work out no matter what you chose. Some of the question asking is a bit fragile, small phrasing changes would break and fix it.
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One pattern I'm liking is using lists and questions as way to add randomness to the generation. A list of five items is almost always different each time, and the humans choice adds to that randomness
The randomness generating any one passage is never as broad as a genre
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If you don't give it a genre it's going to start kind of generically until the details start to point somewhere, as it starts to stereotype the small details it added to the story earlier. But high level descriptions like genre or character put everything else in that framework
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Was rewatching Dune and thought I'd try to make the CYOA story be in Dune. ChatGPT would sometimes refuse depending on wording (complaining it is a language model without access to the internet), but once I got past that it worked quite well
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I caught Oscar red handed in "A mystery set on Sesame Street"
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It usually chooses typical/stereotypical scenarios, like every Romance CYOA is a young woman in the city looking for love. To see if it would stick to this I asked for "A romance between three women." It offered the theme "Navigating polyamory💞" and created "Love in Triplicate."
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Unintentionally I am playing through a story where I have just been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Do I start by (1) Talking to my doctor about treatment options, (2) Calling my family to tell them the news...
Damn, you can work through some stuff with this
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I'm amazed how well this works! Not just how it extrapolates but how it pauses at appropriate times for input; in my experience one of the biggest issues with multi-part prompts is that it answers for you.
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