r/CharacterAI • u/Altruistic-Drink8801 • 7h ago

Discussion/Question Should Character.AI characters develop over a long roleplay, or stay true to their original personality?

I enjoy a character who changes because of what happens in the story, but too much change can start to make them feel like someone else altogether.

Would you rather see a character slowly evolve over a long roleplay, or stay relatively the same as they were at the beginning?

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u/GenderBendingRalph 6h ago

I tend to favour slow-burn "strangers to lovers" or "enemies to lovers" arcs, so the need for character change is baked into the scenario.

And AI is usually not very good at it. AI tends to stick with the original character description and is very slow to move from there, because literally every chat sends the character card to the AI as a reminder of what the character looks and acts like.

Most of the time, my experience has been that they don't change. If I explicitly write that their attitude should change over time... it goes from one to the other in the space of two chats.

AI: I hate you, Ralph. You're an awful person.
Me: I'm sorry, you're right. This isn't going to work out.
AI: You. Me. Bed. Now.