Prompts

Has this ever happened to you? You're itching to play out a story with some wacky hi-jinx using your favourite AI but once you sit down you realize you don't know how to start, or, what to start? Well worry not, writelet! Prompts are here to save you from using your time on this planet for anything productive!

=What is a prompt?= Still not sure what it is? Well, don't be sad! A prompt is quite simply a ready-made story set up to just werk to get you going. Sometimes the author of a prompt even tested what they made to make sure initial generations are maintaining cohesion with the source story and other bits of context provides. Most currently available providers have some way to let you share your own prompts or at least import those from others. The actually usable ones even let you import prompts from files.

=Where do I get prompts?= There's a few Prompt Repositories out there that let you upload and share your own creations. The free-est and most used place we have is the Club. It was made and is hosted by Clubanon. If it's not to your liking there's also AIPrompts, which started out as a clone and HoloAI owned continuation of the Club. As you may have realized from checking it out it's not available. See if LC cares.

Oh yeah, sgreens exists as well. It has a vendetta against the cute and funny brigade and demands precise tagging of NSFW and specific "hardcore" content. If you fail you're banned.

=How do I import prompts?= That depends on your service.

NovelAI
There's a universal import button at the bottom of the story list sidebar on the left.

On desktop drag-and-dropping the prompt into NAI works just as well.

If the prompt you chose has placeholders you will be offered the option to import the prompt "as is" or with them being filled out by you, manually, beforehand.

HoloAI
While you are in your "home" page, simply click on the top-left burger menu then the Import Story button, conveniently located at the bottom of the left sidebar. Don't forget to reload the page since your story list doesn't update just like that.

If the prompt you chose has placeholders you will be asked to fill them out once you open the prompt for the first time.

KoboldAI
The import button has an option to enter the digits to a prompt from the Club. Now it just needs to learn to import something before you even think you may want it.

If the prompt you chose has placeholders I have no clue what happens.

They may just be dropped in verbatim.

AI Dungeon
Use the built in and totally radical explore feature located in the top-left burger menu. Don't forget to disable NSFW filters.

You cannot import from a file.

You cannot export to a file.

You cannot use the old scraper scripts cause they all broke and are no longer maintained.

Embrace the platform. Love the Mormon. This is for your own greater good.

= How do I know if a prompt is any good? = As a novice your best bet is to just try running a prompt you think is promising. In general a prompt should start you off at some fork in the road. The next generation / input should have an actual impact on how things play out. You / the following generation should have some agency and meaning after all. That said nothing stops you from tweaking a prompt to your liking.

=I imported something. Now what?= So you've imported the prompt, clicked generate a few times to see what the AI pumps out and want more influence / take things in a different directions but don't know what? Well, you'll be surprised to find out you can actually add your own writing into the prompts you imported! Audacious, I know. But it's just how it is.

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