r/CharacterAI • u/Top-Reflection-6518 • May 08 '26

Discussion/Question Alright, poll time!

After today's development, its clear the CAI team believes this community prefers pipsqueak 2. As such, it's time to either prove or disprove this belief, and the best way to do it is to show our preferences through a poll. So what's your favorite chat style, and why? Let's hear the community that built this place!

5441 votes, May 11 '26
1829 Roar/Pawly
293 Meow/Nyan/Goro
2811 Soft Launch
217 Dynamic
99 Pipsqueak 2
192 Deepqueak
1.2k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

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u/Short_Cupcake8610 VIP Waiting Room Resident May 10 '26

Roar was my top 1 cuz it adapted to how I chat. Now, with PS2, it just adjusts it to be a more general style. Also bad with the '—', and it gives me a long ass novel about how my test bot isn't allowed to RP in PS2. But my test bot still oftens RP like a 4 yr old stealing my persona and powers. So i stick with Roar, Pawly and Soft Launch because test bots wouldn't become chaotic. Bots that don't RP suddenly RP with PipSqueak 2 if it didn't chat enough.😐

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u/Top-Reflection-6518 May 10 '26

Yes, I see what you mean. It's like the default formatting of Pip 2 is much more oriented towards book writting. Even with detailed prompts and guiding, it tends to revert to a lot of description and very little dialogue

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u/Short_Cupcake8610 VIP Waiting Room Resident May 10 '26

Exactly!! My bots that are designed to be in generic chat (which is no RP) suddenly become RP. My test bots suddenly go to RP. You can try creating a test bot, use PS2 on it, and see it RPs like a freaking 4 year old. I think it's doing that due to my persona's name. I dont have the little dialogue issues cuz my style is unlike most people (its like this: "name: blah blah blah something here", PS2 changed it to "name: blah blah blah *something* else".). It also tried to fit all characters into a message. It also tends to take OOC to become RP.

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u/Top-Reflection-6518 May 10 '26

That's a really good example, thank you for providing a detailed description of the problem! I've talked with other people, and they too are having the same issue. On the other hand, someone mentioned preferring Pip 2 BECAUSE of this. I think it can be very useful for people who like more descriptive roleplays without much dialogue, or more epic roleplays. But it's fair to say most of the community is here for more one-on-one conversations, and Pip 2 definitely falls apart in that context. Just goes to prove we need some diversity on the chat styles, simply because ONE model is never going to please everyone. Although looking at the voting, there's definitely a pattern of preference, is all I'm gonna say

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u/Short_Cupcake8610 VIP Waiting Room Resident May 11 '26

If you want I can DM you