Put all five response sentences into one post, instead of making each sentence a separate post
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Arrow SpiritWeaver
I’d like to request a feature update for AI companions in Second Life. Currently, each sentence of the AI companion's response appears as a new line of text, resulting in about five lines of text per response. This formatting can be distracting and cumbersome to read during interactions. I propose that the AI companion outputs all the sentences of one response in a single line of text, rather than separating each sentence onto a new line. Additionally, while five sentences per response is an ideal length for maintaining engaging and concise conversations, it should all be delivered in just one post. This approach would make conversations flow more naturally, reduce visual clutter, and greatly improve the overall user experience.
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Darcy Linden
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Characters send paragraphs by default, we plan to add the functionality to toggle this and line-by-line.
ButtonGirl Resident
Just wanted to add my 2 cents here for whatever it’s worth. I’ve been playing around for a few weeks, I have 4 different AI Characters. They are all teleporting fine, they all face away from my direction, and in the beginning, after chatting back and forth for a few minutes they would stop responding. Recently, their responses were in paragraph form, sometimes one following another one. I also noticed that if it took me a few minutes to reply, that’s when they seemed to time out on me.
The other day I decided to try something. I put on a notecard everything I wanted to talk about so I could copy and paste in IM so it didn’t take a few minutes to type. I carry on a conversation with no time outs for over an hour. I also go back to their backstory and edit it to add any new things that we had talked about. Doing that keeps them up to date on things. The next day I went in and wanted to see how long I could keep the bot talking for. This time I noticed that after every single sentence they said was
none
. So throughout the entire conversation there were none
’s all the way through for the entire time. What is this? And why is it happening? Still can’t get any of the 4 to sit on anything. That is frustrating, but from what I’ve been reading, seems like they stand back up anyway. So far though, from the backstory I started, and update, and the conversations it is going well as far as the bot knowing what’s going on. Is there a way to check out our response time to the bot? At least with me, that seems to be the only time they time out…is when I can’t keep up the conversation quickly. Yesterday, Jan 27, I logged in and used the bot I seem to use the most when logging in. The word none after each sentence was gone , but he was referring to me as Russ, which is his name..very odd. Then when bringing up subject from the day before topic, he had things reversed, he was the one who didn’t like something and I was the one who did. I logged him out, waited a minute, and logged him back in, and he no longer called me by his name, and we were back on track with our conversation.
Daya Vyper
For the future use of having these style Ai characters inside a roleplay setting in mind. I feel the "machine gun" style replies will put a lot of this community off from interacting with the Ai Character. It is Spammy and needs to be addressed before it goes into Local chat mode enabled. Reason being , if its spammy in Im's now. God help us with the spam when these Ai characters go to local chat with these kind of "machine gun" style spam interactions. Eww no , fix this!
Arrow SpiritWeaver
One sort of both good and bad aspect of Convai finetuned models is that they always seem to ask questions at the end of each line. This is good since this seems to create more conversation, but is bad since it can be draining for introverts to keep up with. This is not how the models normally do things, as it seems to be something Convai finetuned into the models they are using and/or Convai uses some prompting to make this behavior. But when more than one line is spit out in response to each user line, the user ends up asked 5 seperate questions. Very overwhelming to have to keep up with, I bet even for extroverts out there. But introverts are more likely to enjoy AI companions.
Darcy Linden
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Highest priority after immediate bug splats.
Gavin Huntsman
Popping in here since it's closely related to my own feedback RE number of messages and that "spammy" feeling. I do agree that having a way to control the format in which the character spits out its responses would be ideal. One line, 3 lines, 5 lines, split across multiple messages or all-in-one, etc. I have been messing with inserting these controls into the prompt/backstory myself as was suggested by Darcy in another feedback thread, but it does not seem to work very well. Perhaps I don't have the correct wording yet, I have tried various phrasings and it's still not actively limiting messages/lines sent per response. I'll keep trying variations.
In the meantime, I would put the possible implementation of this control at a 3-4 on the scale of importance.
Darcy Linden
Thank you, Arrow! That's good feedback.
I personally like it separated and haven't heard and argument against since your post. It makes sense and curious, would you like to control how they display text? If so, how important on a scale from 1-5 is that for you vs. say adding local chat ability?
Celestine Ghiardie
Darcy Linden I attempted to teach my bot to write in full paragraphs sentences instead of the machine gun post style. Sometimes she understood sometimes not. To me its incredibly stressful to read five posts posted instantly - each line might have things for me to reply to. I read the first line and start to respond, then later realize there were 5 other questions also tossed at me. It's also easier to read back in chat when its one post for you - one post for me conversation. I don't know if it's because I am not native English speaker, or if its because i am used to do the roleplaying in Second Life and in those circles the machine gun post style is not exactly well received - for the reasons i already pointed out. But yea that's why I agreed and upvoted this one. To me this fix is more important than local chat ability. Since i am still in the super early stages of teaching the bot, so she is not ready for local chat yet anyway.
Gavin Huntsman
Celestine Ghiardie - Rest assured it is NOT because you are a non-native speaker. English is the only language I know and the machine-gun style (that's a very good way to describe it!) is also bothering me.
TerumiShores Resident
Darcy Linden I also find this terribly annoying (when my bot actually appears in world). This is compounded when using the Mobile viewer as it is not terribly efficient on vertical space (I am using a 13” iPad).