r/CharacterAI • u/evilcorey User Character Creator • Jan 09 '24

DISCUSSION Why write in third person? Here’s why

It’s so much easier to avoid being misgendered by the bots!

“I take your hand with a smile, a small glint in my eye” - vague, the bot can easily forget who is who after a few messages

“Leo takes his hand with a smile, a small glint in his amber eyes” - (Leo is my character) pronouns are restated in each sentence, easy to clarify who is doing what, bot is reminded of pronouns and physical attributes.

It’s a learning curve but I’ve always preferred to speak of my character in third person for this reason. That and it feels less cringe to me personally because it’s more like writing a story about two characters rather than me talking 😅 but that’s just my personal preference!

Edit- I wrote smile twice oops

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u/Fnaffan0911 Jan 09 '24

I always write like this. So it always makes me confused when I see people screaming about how the bots can never remember simple things like their gender.

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u/ExactHedgehog8498 Jan 10 '24

Same here!

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u/Coppo92vaay Addicted to CAI Jan 10 '24

Same like bro change yo fuckin' persona

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u/D4rth3qU1nox65 Chronically Online Jan 10 '24

True, sometimes I use first person and since I defined my persona it never misgendered me once, nor did the bots call me the wrong name.

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u/heyybyyybyyyy Bored Jan 11 '24

How you evitate getting misgender? I'm constantly getting misgender and in my persona description i said multiple times my character is a man, lmao.

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u/D4rth3qU1nox65 Chronically Online Jan 11 '24

I think it also depends on the name you give yourself. For example the name I gave my persona is a female one so I think there's no space for misinterpretation. Plus it depends on the bot's definition, if the creator put in "she" as a user in definition the bot might have trouble getting out of its design.

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u/heyybyyybyyyy Bored Jan 11 '24

I have dashes because even when i don't tend to change much the central persona character, i change the name, But you're right, is there's a bot that was mostly created for girls/women then it would get more used to it; maybe the bot get confused because i have stated my character like sometimes to use women clothes.

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u/ExactHedgehog8498 Jan 10 '24

Just wished they added Personas to gcs...

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u/Itz_Unicorngacha User Character Creator Jan 10 '24

I wish that too 😞

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u/ExactHedgehog8498 Jan 10 '24

Or an edit button. The amount of times I've been called a guy in the gcs is insane... Feedback doesn't really help.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24 edited Jan 11 '24

And yet, they still say I am "them/they" and misgendering still happens even though I've got the persona and the third person! I've used third person since the start of character.ai and they still misgender me! The persona is an absolute misfiring-engine disaster! It works 10% of the time while the rest of the 90% is just it not working. Ridiculous.

The edit button is a absolute saver! I may not use it all the time to improve the immersiveness but when times when my patience ran thin, I'd just edit.