ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕠 𝕞𝕪 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝔽𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕤! 💛

(Tl;dr / short summary at the bottom)

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🔄 Has my activity changed?

My long-time followers maybe have noticed that for a while now, my creating/publishing tendency has changed. I've been on a decline. I got some motivation with the Wednesday series recently, but other than that, I'm less active: publishing less often, scarcely making new characters, and not making cool new scenarios at all.

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🛠️ How did I make bots in the past?

For a long time, I've put an immense ammount of effort into my new characters (over 8 hours for each, sometimes up to around 16) so I can capture them as accurately as I can. I really just gave it my most, thought long and hard about how to keep them in character the best, while also optimizing them for token-efficiency, and minding the phrasing so the LLM interprets everything correctly. As for the complex first message scenarios (those above 1000 tokens) that's easily over 6+ hours spent on the initial message alone.

If I said that each word in the bot definition has been considered and placed deliberately, it wouldn't even be an exaggeration.

All in all, I think I obsessed over everything being "perfected" and  "optimized" way more than I should have. Even after publishing, I kept (keep) going back to make small improvements.

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But the truth is, that lately, I just couldn't find the motivation to create the same way.

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🎮 Why did I get into AI? And what did I manage to build on janitor?

I got into AI over a year ago. I've always loved roleplay-style games, and a fully open and intelligent world seemed like heaven for me. But even back then, AI wasn't just a harmless hobby. It also served as an escape from real life, where I've felt unappreciated and failing.

I enjoyed roleplaying for a while but quickly started making bots instead. Being able to create something that others enjoy made me feel good, gave me validation.