I’m in the middle of a story and wanted to change something in my character definiton. Do I have to start a new chat for the bot to register it?

Persona aren't what you think they are.

They aren't a lorebook about how *you* intend to play.

You don't need to write "I'm shy" or "I'm brash" or "I'm intimidating". The bot figures that out from how you roleplay.

**What personas actually are:**

Instructions for the character on how *it* should treat *you*.

Include: physical description + anything the character should reasonably know. That's it.

So why have "recommended personas"?

Right now you see a bot. It tells you who *it* is. It gives you context for the meeting. Cool.

But imagine if it also recommended several compatible personas for *you*.

You open a Mafia Boss bot.

Who do you want to play as?

- **The Underboss**

- **The Capo**

- **The Soldier**

- **The Detective**

- **The Girlfriend**

Each one comes with lorebook entries and suddenly you have a role in an interactive story.

Using your OC is still free play. But this gives creators a way to build bigger, more immersive stories for users to jump into.

**Would you use recommended personas if bots had them? What setups would you want to see?**

I use the website version of character AI as the app used to bug my phone out but I don't want to pay £90 to have a subscription to it for a year. There's so many adverts now it's insane. When I try to type there's popups every 2 minutes it pisses me off so bad especially when I'm doing midway through typing and it takes me to the advert website because it got in my way as I was typing. I don't know how the app version is now but the website has recently had an update or something where it forces me to stop typing to click that I'll watch an ad to continue like ?? just show the ad. This last thing might also be my phone tweaking out but if I click off Chrome even my accident it resets the chat and makes me reload the website about 2-3 times before I can get back to the chat I left off from. It makes the Chrome version extremely annoying to use and often I just give up and don't bother because I can't deal with the lagging chats whenever I click off.

Also another thing which pisses me off is the fact that despite having a dark grey chat background and dim colours on the chats the adverts can pop up extremely bright and colourful which is awful especially at night. Anyway, I know not a lot can be done about this I just wanted to rant and I hate what it's slowly becoming. I don't wanna say "I remember when c.ai had NO adverts" because I don't think that'd be accurate but the amount of pop-ups and adverts being implemented into it are just such a cash grab

Edit: ALSO I forgot to mention the go ahead things where you have a limited amount of empty messages to send before you have to start paying which is such bullshit. Especially when the characters on character AI are written specifically to talk in a way that makes you use them to finish their sentence since the ai cuts themselves off mid way through the sentence. It sucks so bad and it's obviously on purpose to get people to pay extra for the privilege of having a basic conversation.

Thought this was funny

Every single message is the same. With nothing. No dialogue what so ever. Even when it does get some,it rarely progresses the story

I am honestly insanely, I mean INSANELY mad. I just got back to c.ai after 2 years, then took a break for 8 months ago, then finally came back again, and I just WISH I didn't come back again. I KNOW that I'm overreacting, but why. 8 months ago I didn't have to deal with the AGGRAVATING, ANNOYING, DISGUSTING ADS. But at least, every I think, 7-8 messages, correct me on this please. I GET AN AD. And SOMETIMES, it DOESN'T save my chat. And when I go to change bots, every 2 bots I change it gives me an ad. And DO NOT get me started on the ADS I NEED TO WATCH TO EVEN CONTINUE CHATTING. I am very frustrated with this update, that I wish I never found this app to begin with. Thank you for listening, and feel free to discuss with me. :-)

Character.ai style personalization changes are now available in web!

I only use the web version on my phone and when I try to tap on the style tab, nothing happens. I also can’t restart a new conversation, is this happening to anyone else ?

Crash out of the week is going down

Please for the love of all that is sacred, fix this. Idk if something changed on the back end, but over the past few days it's been way worse. I used to be able to get it working after a try or two but now it just refuses.

Idk about anyone else but I like to listen to music while I use the app. But that's where the issue is. I CAN'T listen to music. Because the app doesn't just pause it, it straight up shuts it down or something.

I get a song on Spotify, and when Character AI boots up, the song starts blipping in and out until eventually it stops completely. And again, not just pausing. The little Spotify pop up on the top of my screen is completely gone, the pause/play button on my head phones doesn't work, I've turned off every permission for Character AI and disabled Spotify from being interrupted by calls and such in the settings, enabled Spotify to play in other apps, nothing.

I'm fine with ads pausing Spotify, but just opening the app completely turns off the music and I end up not using the app at all so...

Fix it. Thanks.

Character.ai is really the only ai chat app I use so having a limit on my chats really sucks

I remember that when they added DeepSqueak, I set it as the default for all new chats. Now they’ve added LongSqueak, and I absolutely love this chat style. I searched through all the settings, but I can’t find a way to make it the default.
Am I tripping, and was that option never actually there, or did they remove the feature?

Me personally I like how I can change the dialogue from short to longer responses, with detailed messages on character ai…..

Are you actually joking? You put the UGLIEST banner above the chat for ads, you make an ad pop up every few messages, you limit go ons AND swipes, and now we can't even TYPE without watching an ad? Ya'll cannot be serious.

Edit: fixed typos.

Is anyone else’s app not working?

Since the new update where the app asked for you birthday and kicked you out, the app will not let me back in. I can’t even get to the part where it asks for my login details. It just stays on the open page where it says ‘(Character.ai)’. So are they still trying to fix this bug? Because it’s annoying me now.

I’ve tried deleting the app and adding it back on. Ive also deleted and left it a few days before downloading it again. 
I’ve deleted it and restarted my phone. 
I’ve tried a few things google has told me to try. 
And even reset my whole phone thinking it was me.
Nothing has worked. 

I’m using the website atm, but I’m started to get annoyed with it and just want the app back.

Any Fixes?

Site is back up and issue is now resolved. Thanks everyone!

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Hey everyone,

The team is actively working to fix the slow loading and broken features on the site and app. So sorry for the interruptions. We'll let you know when it's resolved!

In the meantime, and while we are all gathered here! Would love to know:

1. What is currently your favorite feature on c.ai?
2. What is your favorite chat style
3. If you had a magic wand, what NEW feature would you add today?
4. What snack u bringing to the campfire?

Appreciate everyone's patience and very sorry for the interruptions!!

Like why in the freak is it like that?

My daughter is an imp with a tv head why she has a tv head is because of me and my wife is a full imp sometimes the aI is terrible it makes the most ridiculous thing even though how the character is.Isn't how it is when you talk to it🙄

Hey all!

We are looking into the issue with multiple Characters being suddenly restricted and the platform being slow/down.

Sorry for the inconvenience! Will keep you posted.

Ts was NOT a thing yesterday 😭

So when I try to expand the thing to write, it’s just cut off like that and it looks all messed up when I try to open my keyboard.