ChatGPT-4 Text Adventure Prompt

chatgpt-4-adventure.prompt

This is now maintained here: https://github.com/apike/pikes-prompts/blob/main/gpt4-text-adventure.prompt

This prompt is geared towards a story-centric text adventure that leans more towards exploration and social engineering than combat.

Release notes:

• This prompt has been tuned to work in ChatGPT using GPT-4. It does not work well with GPT-3.5.
• Because GPT-4 prints out fairly slowly and as of today caps you to 25 messages before you need to come back later, the game feels a bit slow. I'd be curious about suggestions for how to make the prompt "move the plot along" a bit faster.
• So far I've found LLM-driven text adventures more interesting when the model generates multiple choices for you, rather than letting you type in arbitrary text. This way, part of the fun is discovering what options it'll offer.
• I tend to explore paths where you're try to sneak or talk your way out of problems, so combat-like situations haven't been well tested yet.

This was originally inspired by an example adventure prompt on makeuseof.com but has iterated and diverged greatly from that origin.

• Added a quest system, where you can accept and complete quests.
• Attempted to keep things moving by prompting to break up lulls in narrative pace.

Moved this to a repo: https://github.com/apike/pikes-prompts/blob/main/gpt4-text-adventure.prompt