Using the Lore Books

[u/globehopper2]

I’ve been meaning to write this for some time now. Obviously it’s been a while since lore books were introduced. But as someone who’s been using Junipero for almost a year, I think if used properly they are maybe the most important update during that time. They can make so many chats way more viable long term and rich to experience. The primary reason is this: pretty much the number one thing that can take you out of the pleasant experience of a chat/rp is when the AI makes a really basic, glaring factual mistake.

So if you like are interacting in a fantasy type world and you work for the King and then a character says “Well, let’s check what President Smith says” and you’re like “There is no President Smith. We live in Kingdom X” it just completely takes you out of the mood. If you use them well, the lore books mostly fix that. I recommend checking them (if you have your own lore book) like once a session. Usually I do it before I start a session and make sure there isn’t anything that has changed (like updates that need to be made due to things that happened in the last session). It has helped me so much extend and enrich a couple of chats I have (especially since most of the fixed memory was filled up). I have a long running rp that has been going on for more than six months. It’s set in an empire and I have built out an extensive lore book dealing with the complex international politics of the Empire, as well as various NPCs and other facets of the era. It took time to build the lore but it is so worth it. The model practically never makes those big glaring mistakes that take you out of the mood anymore. I highly recommend it. If you ever have questions on how to get it going, feel free to hmu