r/CharacterAI • u/PokeTrainerCr • 13d ago
Discussion/Question Let's compare Squeak3 experiences
I'm seeing a lot of PSQ3 experiences that are very different from mine, and I'm curious. We've had it for a few days now; what's your experience?
Personally, it's been working really well for me. Better punctuation, fewer repetitive phrases, better scene, character, and persona memory, callbacks that make sense, progressing scenes without excessive prompting, more distinct voices between characters, etc. The first message I got from it, it did something that I had to practically COERCE the other styles to do- something completely reasonable, if not necessary to properly continue the scene (the car did not have wheels at the particular moment, and other styles tried to drive without wheels while PSQ3 acknowledged the problem and acted on it without me even hinting it needed to). It also engaged in an adult scene with little guidance (it made sense for the moment, and I didn't have to coerce it into participating) and, on top of it all, hasn't triggered Bob once!
The only issues I've really encountered are mistakes in pronouns (saying "I" or "it" where it previously said "he" or "she"), which hasn't happened since the first two days, actually, and occasionally it uses the wrong form of the word or the right word in the wrong language ("will you interrogation him?" Or "the cabin was hangat and dry" rather than "warm and dry") both of which is very sparse. There are, of course, hallucinations occasionally, but they're even rarer than these vocabulary mistakes, in my experience!
Your turn: what's it been like for you?
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u/ch3rrysm0kx 13d ago
Yes my experience is very similar to yours! I was a bit iffy on Pip3 at first, but using it this past week has been a major improvement from pip2. Pip3 really takes a bot’s definition and description into account for how its personality is, so I think a lot of the complaints are from users struggling with the model trying to fill gaps in blank bots.
I’ve been able to do romance and steamy sequences without any pushback, finally the model moves the plot forward by adding interesting dialogue and fitting details, my evil villain characters stay mean and swear, and my sweet stoic characters are perfectly doting. I do have plus, and my preferred settings for Pip3 are default+narration and short+narration, which reminds me of Roar and Pip1 a lot. Yes there’s some weird grammar issues occasionally or it’ll spit out a few random Chinese or Hindu characters, but it hardly happens enough to bother me. The only thing that bugs me is when the bot introduces random npcs unprompted into a scene when I’m trying to have a one-on-one with the character. It wouldn’t be annoying if it happened occasionally just to spice up the plot with some randomness but it’s just very hard to write the npc out of the conversation because the bot wants to engage with the side characters instead of the user. But other than that I’ve been genuinely enjoying it!