rpgGPT
Games
text-based rpg
SHOW HN2023
29points
18comments
#1,423of 3,109 in 2023
Top 46%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 3 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Execution: 5 for, 2 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Emergent gameplay and NPCs are fun and suggestible
From 3 comments
Love it. You are dragged to the Occidarian Capital City Jail Eldric the bard: Hey, are you okay? They didn't hurt you too bad, did they? Merlot the Wine Wizard: I'm quite frail…
wortleborltle on HNI've noticed it's extremely suggestible. Most times I exit the jail by just producing the key from my pocket. I've also convinced the jailer I'm a prince by showing my "prince…
notsure2505 on HNThis weekend at the NYC GPT/LLM Hackathon, we built rpgGPT, a text-based RPG set in the world of Occidaria (think fall of the Western Roman Empire, with a slightly magical…
KMcPheeters on HN
Jailbreak-style prompts work surprisingly well
From 2 comments
Not Sure: I think I'm in the wrong line. I'm supposed to be getting out of jail today. Jail Guard: That's what they all say. Name? Not Sure: Not Jail Guard: Not what? Not Sure:…
notsure2505 on HNI think this is the simplest "jailbreak" jailbreak I've seen work so far - clever!
KMcPheeters on HN
Objections
Frequent invalid JSON and max retries errors
From 2 comments
Struggling a bit to get the DM to discuss the setting and scope of the campaign before we get started. :) From the browser console: Invalid JSON: {As an AI language model, I do…
ben0x539 on HNThe biggest trade off is you sometimes get invalid JSON. So I try repairing the JSON with some regex and also just retry a few times if it returns invalid JSON that can't be…
KMcPheeters on HN
Context window limits break long sessions
From 2 comments
I'm seeing "This model's maximum context length is 4097 tokens. However, your messages resulted in 4122 tokens. Please reduce the length of the messages." errors in the browser…
ben0x539 on HNCurrently using gpt-3.5-turbo. All state has a json representation that gets based between the game engine and the LLM. In v0.2 not handling the context window super well,…
KMcPheeters on HN
Slow responses and dropped prompts
From 1 comment
Sadly most of the time I write a prompt it seems to take forever to respond and most of the time just eats my prompt without producing further dialog, rolling back to before I…
RugnirViking on HN
Requests
Open source implementation
From 1 comment
How did you prompt the NPCs to maintain character consistency across time in a large conversation / how are you handling memory? Super cool! Would love to see an OSS implementation
legohorizons on HN
Better memory handling for long conversations
From 2 comments
How did you prompt the NPCs to maintain character consistency across time in a large conversation / how are you handling memory? Super cool! Would love to see an OSS implementation
legohorizons on HNThanks for trying it out! Right now we give the game engine some initial examples, and some character details are stored outside of the LLM context. The token limit problem /…
KMcPheeters on HN
Questions
Which LLM is used and how state is persisted
From 1 comment
What LLM are you using? How do you save and load the persistent state? And how do you deal with the limited context window of the LLM you are using?
jxy on HN
How NPC character consistency is maintained over time
From 1 comment
How did you prompt the NPCs to maintain character consistency across time in a large conversation / how are you handling memory? Super cool! Would love to see an OSS implementation
legohorizons on HN
Alternatives named
AI Dungeon
From 1 comment
yea, AI Dungeon is OK but would love to see more here. Have some workarounds for memory if you are using langchain and happy to share. Feel free to shoot me a message on Discord…
legohorizons on HN
dndinfinity.com
From 1 comment
That’s a clever way of doing state. For dndinfinity.com, I rendered the game state as natural language (e.g. “the players are engaged in the following quests”) in the prompt,…
jfisher4024 on HN