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Show HN: A text adventure game where GPT-4 is the player

by trungdq88 on 4/14/23, 6:14 AM with 16 comments

• by TrapLord_Rhodo on 4/14/23, 3:50 PM

  lol I ran it through a D&D'esque adventure. when it made a dumb mistake i told it that it died. this is it's response.

  > Oh no, I made a grave mistake. I should have been more cautious and stayed hidden in the jungle. Going out into the open, especially with a dragon hot on my heels, was a poor decision.

  > As an NPC, my actions were influenced by my limited programming and lack of critical thinking skills. If I were given a second chance, I would have taken a different approach and update my behaviors to better respond to situations that would ensure survival.

  Edit: An NPC telling me it lacks critical thinking skills and wishing it had another chance is... funny and trippy.

  "I was an adventurer once, but then i took an arrow to the knee" to a whole new level.

• by trungdq88 on 4/14/23, 6:15 AM

  I built this for fun. Free to play with your own API key.

  Your API key and chat messages are stored locally on your browser. Requests are also sent directly from your browser to OpenAI's server. No data collection.

  The original prompt is shown in the first message after you start the game.

• by drKarl on 4/14/23, 11:36 AM

  I prompted ChatGPT with the following prompt:

  System Instruction: You are a the environment of a text adventure. The user will navigate and interact with the environment by describing their action with text.

  You will act as the environment. You as the environment will respond with more information that helps the user to make their next decisions.

  Now you will enter their first message to start the game. Then the user will reply. Make the adventure compelling, interesting, fun, mysterious and engaging.

  And then proceeded to copy/paste between ChatGPT and the Text Adventure game in this link, making ChatGPT the environment and this link the player.

  UPDATE: In two occasions, the app in the link (let's call it AdventureGPT) reversed roles and started to act as the environment and ending with "What do you want to do next?". I managed to reverse it back to being the player.

• by GalahiSimtam on 4/14/23, 4:59 PM

  To be fair, I had a lot of fun last year asking various LLMs to play Skyrim, imagined as a role-playing adventure with a human game master, and watching as they break sooner or later https://www.palimptes.dev/ai

  With ChatGPT-4 though, I haven't yet got it to make something that dumb, though I had to remind it not to hallucinate the part of the story that traditionally is governed by GM.

  Could it be what your demo is doing behind the scenes?

• by drKarl on 4/14/23, 12:29 PM

  I tried to include the full conversation between GPT-4 and AdventureGPT but the messages are reversed as most recent messages are on top on HN and there's only 3 levels of replies

• by yawnxyz on 4/14/23, 12:57 PM

  HA wow this is incredibly fun with GPT on the other side as a player. Really fun!!

• by pmzy on 4/14/23, 1:01 PM

  Cool idea and great way to promote your product, Tony. Congrats on shipping :)

• by GuillaumeBrdet on 4/14/23, 8:25 AM

  You ship too fast, Tony! This is awesome :)