softlaunch2 months ago
PSA: your greeting matters way more than your 800 word definition and nobody talks about it
hot take maybe but i'm convinced the first message is doing 90% of the work. i kept obsessing over my definition while my greeting was literally 'hi how are you' and wondering why nobody stuck around. rewrote just the opener to actually set a mood and the vibes were instantly better. stop wasting your greeting on small talk, set the tone from the first line. that's the whole post
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Sign inthe greeting thing is so underrated. i made two versions of the same bot, one with a mood-setting opener and one that jumped straight into action, and the mood one kept me hooked way longer. people decide if they care in the first message
i always write the greeting LAST, after the whole definition is done. by then i actually know how the character talks so the opener comes out sounding like them instead of generic. doing it first never works for me
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