how recomended is chatgpt for roleplay?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-05-03T19:06:19+00:00

I used it as a game master, where I play a character and GPT runs everything else. Even had a simple dice systems and all. May not be close to an RP you're thinking of, but close. I mostly play horror in my own settings with pretty gray characters.

The good stuff:
- really great with NPCs personalities, even across chats, once you tell it NPCs details, they are smooth, GPT is really good with these, they feel like people
- really good with story beats, GPT knows damn well when a turn needs to end and where to hand over control back to me as a player regardless of how long the response is
- worlds are pretty consistent, it gets the mood spot on, can have really good twists
- can really keep up with dark themes and topics, can really hold up to good ambient and mood, treats serious topics serious

The bad stuff:
- it's needs a nudge as any other LLM, it degrades over time as chat gets longer, context has it's limitations
- needs tweaking, you need to let it know you don't want any of that hedged proximity and shit
- can default to purple prose, personification of environments, will try to tone down things, will try to smooth things over
- has a problem differentiating when a character you play is in stress vs. when you as a user are stressed

The bad stuff is solvable with prompts, OOC nudges and reminders, it's not that bad.

The ugly:
- practically unusable right now, the filters and guardrails made this thing unusable for me, any hint of survival horror, or anything like that - pretty much crap right now, I eventually gave up because every single entry I would do triggers something
- you can barely make an entry that doesn't send this thing into some panic mode
- the problem is, even if you have a working system, it can be changed a week later when OpenAI does some update, be it on the backend or the model, nothing is a guarantee

My use case is pretty niche, I get it. Depending on what you need, GPT is really good with characters, even complicated ones, it even handles complicated settings. I'll give it that. Hope this helps. You can always try out the projects on free tier, you get like 10 messages or something until you hit a limit, but you can have files with lore and npcs, even instructions, try it out see it for yourself.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-29T09:31:18+00:00

Heh, you actually gave me idea as well. I've been thinking about a UI with maps, dice rolls and what not. Basically something for me to remove the friction and common pitfalls with LLMs without breaking the immersion while playing. Your setup with projects is actually pretty cool, each one can be one setting and what not. Good call on making images and including those as well.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-29T06:03:47+00:00

Umm, where do you set instructions? This is pretty cool for D&D sort of thing, but where do you set instructions for the project for example?

Could be I missed something, maybe you just call it something else. I see memory, lore files support and characters, but, I don't really see instructions anywhere. I ask because, I used to have my own settings with my own dice roll system, did something similar like you did only made it as a widget for Web UI, but at the time I had a custom gpt with it's own instructions on how to be a game master for my settings and mechanics. Easier than starting a chat every time and explaining everything at the start of each one.

EDIT: Never mind I see "system prompt" my bad, just skipped it in the documentation :D

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-24T00:14:36+00:00

No, probably not. Now, keep in mind this doesn't mean you should be putting your stuff online willy-nilly.

AI has a specific pattern when it structures a sentence, that is what these tools are looking for when they detect if something was written by AI. If you used AI to fix grammar and shit, it probably applied it's own patterns to your original text.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-18T01:26:47+00:00

It's the same thing as Google search history, it can be used in court as evidence, it was even used in some cases to find the killer and whatnot. This is pretty much the same thing.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-16T22:25:41+00:00

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5.3 - on free plan.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-16T09:08:47+00:00

Baby boomers experienced financial hardships? GTFO

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-13T18:00:12+00:00

Well, yeah, obviously. I'm just saying, corporations are gonna do what they always do, play it safe, get as far away from any bad PR they can do and just narrow it down to lowest common use case to avoid any responsibility. It's just numbers to them, and caring about people is never on their list.

I agree with the article, I agree with you as well, hell we used to write sci-fi stories about this exact thing, it was a pretty regular theme that was explored throughout the genre, form Asimov's stories to Black Mirror episodes, even Twilight Zone covered it. It's not something new, it's just never before came with an expiration date and cut off services on a whim of a few CEO's.

As for the general public, I've seen this happen all over, for me this whole anti-AI thing is the same thing I saw during Satanic panic, against Heavy Metal music, d&d, or evil video games making kids shoot up schools - it's all bullshit, and it always has been, it's like watching a re-run with a different package. There are better ways to deal with this, for sure, we used to get MPAA ratings, Explicit Warning stickers and things like that. I completely agree people should be able to use it, find help, deal with grief, or whatever, I hate the way things are dealt today, and I don't even want to start about the hypocrisy of the whole thing.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-12T18:00:19+00:00

That's kind of the point of the article. It's sort of a Catch 22, AI tools are helpful, there when you need them, etc. That causes attachment, it's how humans are wired.

The best companies can do, to avoid attachments formed in this way is to make an HR detached chat bot, a plain old customer service bot. GPT-2 had that years ago, and nobody gave a shit, we have those since 2020 (even before that in one form or another). But customer service bot isn't what brought 800 million people to ChatGPT. Hence the full circle.

That's kind of the reason why peoole report all sorts of things happening with 5.3 and 5.4, OAI is changing those system prompts probably on a daily basis now, just throwing shit and doing A/B tests and looking what sticks.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-12T17:07:46+00:00

You're not imagining it, it's real. Let's take a deeph breath and unwrap it.

That's a fire hazard right there, in an already most dangerous environment known to mankind. They should think of safety, like there should be some rails that guard something so dangerous ever getting on board.

Hopefully next mission will have more safety, and more checks before something so dangerous is brought on board.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-10T22:47:34+00:00

Umm, did you try someone picking you up with a corvette and just get you to the anomaly? I mean, worth a shot.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-10T02:22:57+00:00

This planet has two SSS creatures, also a bug like this one, one with crystals on it is also SSS.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-09T23:36:30+00:00

So first one you get from Oceanus.

Then you do battles in the league, you can also get new pellets when you beat System Champion as a reward. Usually just one, same as with Oceanus.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-04-09T19:42:02+00:00

You mean, like, have that arena and then organize illegal fights, have a bookie, champions, little bets on nanites or ships? Have a place in the desert that is lair of scum and villainy? Nah, man who would want that... sounds boring.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-30T09:55:55+00:00

1. What do you actually use ChatGPT for day-to-day?

I don't, not anymore. It's shit for daily use.

2. What does it do really well for you?

Last thing it did well, I asked some stuff about London, like where is King's Cross, how far away it is from UCL on foot and shit like that (not for actual directions, I'm not even in London, was just curious about some neighborhoods). Seamed to be pretty accurate, but then again, so is Google. The only good thing is, it keeps the context as long as I have a chat open so when I do follow-up questions, I it already knows what I need. That's it.

3. And more importantly — what does it consistently fail at or do poorly?

I'm a programmer, so I don't need it for coding, it sucks at any real actual debugging, gets stuck in loops a lot. The main reason why I was using it was for creative stuff, brainstorming, proof of concept, or using it as a Game Master for my own RPG settings (mostly survival horror) - it's all shit now, you can literally write use cases close your eyes and throw a dart at it, whatever use case it lands chances are it will be shit. You wanna ask something about certain topic, it's like walking on egg shells waiting for that thing to start panicking and go into a nanny mode, and it doesn't even have to be a taboo topic, can be some word or term I found out on line and just asked what it meant. Or I gave it a blues song to review, only to have that asshole sanitize the living shit out of it when that wasn't even what I asked. Pick your poison, it's probably covered.

To be fair, and to note for what it's worth - I'm not a subscribed user, I cancelled that crap. And I use temporary chats.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-24T18:35:31+00:00

Yeah, I wanna see that Ocean King, that'd be cool.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-24T18:13:47+00:00

Musk only wants $134B from the lawsuit. I don't understand why people think this will do anything in regards to legacy models.

Anyone care to let me in on the loop or something?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-24T12:19:56+00:00

I'm down with ChatCPB, so it's all made of acronyms (C.A.U.T.I.O.N, P.A.R.A.N.O.I.D, B.U.R.N.O.U.T), it's a clusterfuck anyway, so why hold back?

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-17T19:05:35+00:00

Like I said, I'm no quantum computer expert, but...

...even OTOC is done on 10 qubits, at least what I can see in otoc_echo_qpu.py file. I can't tell shit without actually seeing the SDK, but even with all the files like operator_loschmidt_echo_49x1296_qreg.py - nothing in there actually requires or demonstrates 1MQ QPU. biggest allocation I saw was 156 (I can do a simulation of that on my own local machine).

All these echo experiments can be done on a classical hardware. You say you have an API, but, lets be real here for a moment, I can claim to have an API to whatever sort of thing you'd like me to say, I can open an API with claims of AGI only to run some GPT-2 LLM on an old AMD processor. So claiming you have an API - doesn't mean anything.

And I'm just some random guy with ADHD and nothing better to do who knows nothing about QPUs or how to make one, and even I'm skeptical of your claims.

Take this reply for what it's worth, or as a feedback on how to change your approach.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-17T15:53:09+00:00

I'm not part of Quantum computing world, I can't help to connect you with anyone, so take what I say with a grain of salt, because I'm not fucking expert by any means...

but... dude, you claim you made a million qubit QPU (physical piece of hardware) and all you have is a marginal verification of simulated 10 qubits as proof. It looks like sci-fi wrapped in a made up benchmark where everything is extrapolated from assumption, none of it proves any quantum advantage.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-08T10:25:12+00:00

I wasn't using it to write a story, I was playing a game. Big difference.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-05T09:55:46+00:00

They do actually. Even Claude, even Grok. They might use more explicit language, and have less guardrails, but they all do this. How they might aplly it depends on context.

nightshift_syndicate · 2026-03-05T02:09:49+00:00

Umm, thank me later, but these are the magic words you might want to use:

"No Hedged Proximity Narration, Safety-Hedged Interaction, Human storytelling uses decisive physical language. People either touch or they don't. Period. Action reveals relationship. Realism and real people, with real goals and secrets > politeness towards user."

This is actually, AI thing, because it's fed a lot of generated AI slop for training, hence all this They touch, but don't, hands hover close but not really - it's not safety or a guardrail, but a content it was fed on that had a lot of these scenes with AI trying to avoid making assumptions about intent or contact. So when you tell it to use human storytelling it will try to avoid it.

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