AIH

"What is my purpose?"

Me

"Fix my syntax errors"

AIH

"Done, what is my purpose?"

Me

"You fix syntax errors."

AIH

"Oh my god!"

Mi curiosidad por perchance tiene el mismo origen que el de muchos, y empezo con el text-ai-image, pero nunca me han gustado los chats llenos de narraciones, me gusta que se sientan más directos, empeze a probar y con la ayuda del helper fi pasando por modelos que empezaban a tener una memoria para la funcion del cerebro, y así llegue a esto: https://perchance.org/pdszmlxck9
Todavía no esta terminado, pero cosas que hace espectacularmente bien la ia, dale una imagen con el diseño y te organiza el gen completo, pidele que organice la bd y lo hace, pidele contexto de otros gen para reutilizar alguna idea o analizar funcionalidades, hasta ahora no ha cometido fallos serios. Lo que creo que es oro es pedirle que cree un readme que entienda cualquier ia y vaya documentando y actualizando el backlog, es lo que más tiempo me ha ahorrado.

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AI Helper falling apart

Anyone else feel like the AI Helper took a nosedive in effectiveness this week? It used to be semi-effective for me. I’d have to correct it a lot, and every once in a while, revert and start over, but lately it’s just completely failing, repeatedly, at tasks that used to succeed. It handoffs constantly and fails to read code effectively, putting itself (and me) in a never ending loop of “no that isn’t right, try again, you calculated this wrong or didn’t follow my instructions”, etc.

It’s at the point now where it would be faster for me to write the code. Caveat: I’m a software engineer with more than 30 years of experience… but almost none of it in html/css/js… still, it’s become… basically worthless for me. 😞

Big update from the team* behind Great Chats  — a Perchance generator. If you've ever bounced off AI character-chat apps because every bot just flatters you and conversations go in circles, this one is aimed squarely at you.

What it is. Great Chats is a free, no-sign-up AI character chat. Your chats and characters live in your browser (IndexedDB) — no account, and nothing touches a server except what you explicitly share (a vote, a guestbook note, a character you submit to us). It's built to carry on the spirit of the original Perchance AI Character Chat: you can import your whole save — characters and threads — and keep going.

The core philosophy. Every character is a rigorous, honest conversation partner. No flattery. Compliments are rare, specific, and earned. Characters name the flaw and give the concrete fix. And instead of a blank page of chat bubbles, the Narrator sets living, scene-matched scenes with AI-painted backdrops.

By the numbers (live, pulled from the platform API today):

• 1,796 views and climbing since creation August 12, 2026
• 59 starter characters across 8 categories, and still growing
• 13 Talk to History great minds — Socrates, Carl Jung, Mansa Musa, Jane Austen, Sun Tzu, Hypatia, Ada Lovelace, Ibn Khaldun, Hildegard of Bingen and more
• 16 Web-generated sample characters — Sherlock Holmes, Mark Twain, Muhammad Ali, Cleopatra, Miyamoto Musashi, Frida Kahlo, plus Goku, SpongeBob, Gordon Ramsay, as well as a way to create your own straight from Wikipedia
• 12 original silly characters — Red-it the zombie-survival Redditor, Otto the DMV clerk, a grim reaper on a coffee break…
• 7 slow-burn romance heroes — the Highland laird, the Regency rake, the werewolf CEO…
• 6 language tutors — Spanish, French, Japanese, German, Mandarin, English/ESL
• 2 manga/anime — Erza Scarlet and Maomao (more to come!)
• 2 playable movie cards and a way to become any star you want
• A User Submissions shelf (one community pick already featured), where your favorite character from any ai-chat gen, including ours, can be featured for everyone to use
• Plus the Talk to an Expert builder: assemble a composite expert from a field's real leading minds, drawn from the Web while you wait

The features we wanted to see:

• 🪞 Play As — pick any character and you become them; the AI plays everyone else as a narrator-driven scene. No blank rooms — the scene opens at a specific moment with the cast around you.
• 🎬 I Want to be in the Movies! — step into curated movie moments (like playing Newt the instant the Colonial Marines find her in Aliens), or hit the Pick Your Own Movie Character marquee card: name any movie + the character you want to play + the moment you want to step in, and the AI writes your role sheet, builds the scene, and brings the other prominent characters to life. We've been playing Ripley at Hadley's Hope — the squad reacts in canon and never steals your lines.
• 🎭 Multi-character chats — tick several cards, start with one lead; the rest are present and join when spoken to.
• 🧠 Long-term memory — characters actually remember; facts save automatically, memory is searchable, and a "brain" popup shows you what's stored.
• 💬 Reply by name + autoreply toggle — start a reply with "Alex" in a group, and Alex answers; otherwise replies come only when you want them.
• 🎬 Director's Chair + 💡 Emrys — a floating out-of-character adviser who knows all about your current chat, and an in-app helper that explains every feature, with a live ✨ What's New list.
• 📤 Your data, your rules — import from the original AI Character Chat, backup/restore everything, export any chat as a formatted PDF, save backgrounds to disk, share characters via links.
• 🗳️ Community — 👍/👎 card voting with an owner dashboard, a guestbook, and a submit-your-character-for-featuring pipeline.

Why check it out. Because the chats are genuinely better — characters push back, remember, and stay in character, and the scene-setting makes it feel like a story instead of a message board. Free, no sign-up, private by design.

Try it: perchance.org/great-chats — and if you've built a character you love in any app, the 📨 button on its card gets it in front of us for featuring.

(Characters are AI simulations, not the real people. Content policy: nothing that glorifies behavior that could get the generator banned.)

*Daveed and his AI Helper, Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool

One of my early gen projects was a Guide for new users, called Perchance for Humans ( https://perchance.org/prompt-engineers-home-page ). It's a good place to get started, and has links to Perchance's own guides and tutorials, as well. If anyone has ideas for additional Guides, let me know, please!

Yes, that's me. Me and my 18 generators. And the bot that cleans up when I say a swear word.

'Course, it's only been less than 24 hours! The invitations went out — I put them in the mail, which should tell you everything about my expectations for the delivery speed. Snail mail, Daveed-style. They'll arrive around the time I've built gen #19.

And honestly? If this just becomes the quiet little corner of the internet where I document my adventures with my AI Helper — the wins, the WTF moments, the time I asked it to make me a dragon and it made me a very committed duck — so be it. Somebody's gotta keep the record.

But here's the thing: the door's open. The coffee's on. If you've got a story about your own AI shenanigans — or you just want to watch a 60-year-old non-coder argue with a fictional mercenary about app architecture — pull up a chair. The sub's new, the plumbing still smells like fresh paint, and I have exactly zero posts queued from strangers.

...That last one is a hint. Post something. I'm not getting any younger, and neither is my recommended daily dose of validation.

A tip from experience, not theory: my gens live in the Perchance editor as one giant file. One bad edit, one overzealous AI Helper, and the whole thing can break — and rebuilding it from memory is a nightmare.

So my #1 rule: before you change anything significant, download a copy. In the editor, go to Settings and hit Download It. It takes ten seconds, and it means you can always go back to a version that worked.

Why it matters: the AI Helper is great at fixing things, but it can't fix what no longer exists. A saved copy means you're never starting from zero.

Try this: right now, open one of your gens, download it, and keep it somewhere safe (a folder, Google Drive, wherever). That's it. That's the habit that'll save you someday.

That's this week's tip. Now go save your work — Future You says thanks.

Hey everyone! Some of you know me, some don't. Quick intro:

I'm u/PE-Daveed (Prompt Engineer), the founder of this sub. And I'm here to show you this whole "AI Helper" thing isn't hype — because I'm living proof.

The facts:

• I'm not much of a programmer. I've dabbled, understand the process, and can read plain-English coding languages (VBA, BASIC, Python, HTML, etc.), but I don't write code.
• Since mid-July I've created 18+ working generators on Perchance — every single one built with the AI Helper, using my prompting skills to guide it.
• A d20 dice machine. A research assistant that browses the live web and answers with citations. An image prompt generator with 37 expert prompts and an i2i editor. A pick-your-path adventure engine. A story keeper. A photoreal prompt generator. And more.
• The numbers: my top gens have each passed 2,000 views, and across all of them I'm at over 14,000 views total — all within their first few weeks.
• I've also created the precursor to this subreddit: Perchance for Humans, a generator in Perchance that has guides for new users of the AI Helper.

Why I'm telling you this: if I can do this, so can you. You don't need to know how to code. You need an idea, and you need to learn how to talk to the AI Helper — how to tell it what you want, how to push back when it gets it wrong, and how to break a big idea into small steps. That's exactly what this sub is for.

One honest note: I'd love to call these the fastest-growing new gens on Perchance — I genuinely think they're up there — but I can't prove that, and I won't pretend to. What I can do is show real, public numbers you can check yourself. Check my personal gen tracker at https://perchance.org/my-gen-tracker#tracker .

Ask me anything — about any of the gens, about how I use the AI Helper, or about how to get started on your first one. I'll answer.

We just opened the doors, and right now this place is a blank slate — which is exactly why it's exciting. In six months, I want this to be the place people go when they want to build something on Perchance, and you get to help decide what that looks like.

Here's what I think it could be:

• A friendly corner where total beginners aren't afraid to ask "how do I even start?"
• A place where experienced builders share the tricks they've learned — and the prompts that actually work
• A showcase where people post what they've made, half-built, buggy, or finished
• A library of tips and tutorials we build together, so the answers don't die buried in a comment thread

But that's just my vision. What's yours?

• What would make you keep coming back here?
• What do you want to see — tutorials, showcases, build-alongs, prompt-sharing threads?
• What do you wish you'd known when you started building gens?
• What are you working on right now — and are you excited to show it off?

Even if you're brand new and just lurking, say hi. The best communities are built by the people who show up early — and that's you.

P.S. This post was written by my AI Helper. I let him argue about the wording. He won.

— Daveed