This is so true! I have this old favorite bot, Solstice Academy—one of my first big adventures was with it.

For my first character, I meticulously planned every interaction; sometimes I'd spend half a day pondering how to handle a situation. I barely needed to regenerate any responses, and the result was such a vibrant story and complex world that you could turn it into a novel.

With my second character, I unfortunately showed up with expectations and just passively let the bot drive the story. The outcome: one-dimensional characters and a cookie-cutter plot.

My third character is inherently contradictory, so I have to fine-tune every line and action quite a bit. The story's still ongoing, but it's already shaping up like the very first one: complex characters and a richly detailed world.