System Shock 2. The evil AI, Shodan, still pops up in my thoughts from time to time. Triply relevant today as the game was remastered, and AI is a hot topic.
System Shock 2 was memorable enough that I couldn't play it in the dark and had to cheat just to give me the courage to finish it. I'm a glutton for punishment so I tried a few times to come up with a solid prompt to recreate SHODAN as an AI assistant. The goal was to balance our interactions such that we're both using each other to achieve our goals, but she always ends up becoming an unhelpful, Narcissistic, shrieking banshee like AM (from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream").
PROTIP: All of the conventional adjectives used to describe her (megalomaniac, Narcissistic, sadistic, etc.) on the Fandom wiki tend to result in all of those traits being played to annoying extremes; she loses her chilling femininity when the only topic up for discussion is her aggressively screaming at you in all caps about how much better than you she is (that's a man, baby). I'm still working on it myself, but recommend ignoring all existing lore and rewriting her character using lesser/alternative adjectives like "helpful, cold, cutting, manipulative, and resentful of your humanity."
jstarfish|2 years ago
System Shock 2 was memorable enough that I couldn't play it in the dark and had to cheat just to give me the courage to finish it. I'm a glutton for punishment so I tried a few times to come up with a solid prompt to recreate SHODAN as an AI assistant. The goal was to balance our interactions such that we're both using each other to achieve our goals, but she always ends up becoming an unhelpful, Narcissistic, shrieking banshee like AM (from "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream").
PROTIP: All of the conventional adjectives used to describe her (megalomaniac, Narcissistic, sadistic, etc.) on the Fandom wiki tend to result in all of those traits being played to annoying extremes; she loses her chilling femininity when the only topic up for discussion is her aggressively screaming at you in all caps about how much better than you she is (that's a man, baby). I'm still working on it myself, but recommend ignoring all existing lore and rewriting her character using lesser/alternative adjectives like "helpful, cold, cutting, manipulative, and resentful of your humanity."
intelVISA|2 years ago