This repo contains example prompts for OpenAI's GPT-3 API and the resulting AI-generated texts for an assortment of worldbuilding tasks. Each task is meant to illustrate how GPT-3 can be integrated in the creative worldbuilding process for writers, game designers, roleplayers, and other worldbuilders. Each experiment's prompt is also intentionally designed to eventually be populated with notebook data from Notebook.ai for the specific user doing the generation, which should result in output that is personalized to that user's world.
All generated texts in this repo are completely unedited and uncurated unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The following experiments are included in this repository:
Generators are focused around generating individual, core worldbuilding pieces.
ability-generatorgenerates fictional abilities for characters, detailing a strength and weakness.building-generatorgenerates fictional buildings within a city.character-generatorgenerates fictional characters' names, descriptions, and appearances.condition-generatorgenerates sicknesses and diseases that characters may be afflicted by.creature-generatorgenerates fictional creatures with a brief description and leg count.flora-generatorgenerates fictional plants with a brief description and list of biomes they're found in.food-generatorgenerates fictional foods with a brief description and high-level recipe instructions.group-generatorgenerations ficticious groups of people that exist within the world.government-generatorgenerates fictional governments and a brief description of how they're run.item-generatorgenerates fictional items, including a description and the material(s) that item is made of.job-generatorgenerates fictional jobs in the style of job postings, with descriptions and requirements.landmark-generatorgenerates fictional landmarks, such as caves, bridges, mountains, and lakes.race-generatorgenerates fictional races with a brief description.spell-generatorgenerates ficticious spells, including an incantation and instructions to cast.sport-generatorgenerates fictional sports with setup instructions, points explanations, and win conditions.sword-generatorgenerates ficticious swords with a description and legendary backstory.
Expanders take an existing worldbuilding piece and attempt to indiscriminately expound upon it.
character-expandertakes an incomplete character (here, Joe Clementz) and randomly adds additional information about that character.
Suggesters take an existing worldbuilding piece and a field, and return a suggested value for that field. For example, a user might be looking for suggestions for "prejudices" or "hobbies" on an existing character and want to incorporate the whole character (age, profession, etc) as inputs to a "likely" value.
character-suggestertakes an incomplete character (again, Joe Clementz) and a field ("prejudices") to return a suggested value
Each experiment is isolated to its own folder in the /experiments folder with the following files:
| Filename | Description |
|---|---|
| prompt.txt | The input used in this experiment |
| settings.yml | Any settings overrides for this experiment (changing engines, stop-characters, etc) |
| output-0_0.txt | 10 outputs at temperature 0.0 (deterministic, repeating output). |
| output-0_25.txt | 10 outputs at temperature 0.25 |
| output-0_5.txt | 10 outputs at temperature 0.5 |
| output-0_75.txt | 10 outputs at temperature 0.75 |
| output-1_0.txt | 10 outputs at temperature 1.0 (most chaotic) |
Experiments can be run from the repo's root directory with the following command:
ruby experiment.rb name-of-experiment
You will also need your OpenAI secret key set in the environment variable OPENAI_SK, as well as the gpt3 gem installed.
This repository has no affiliation with OpenAI and was inspired by the similar thought-provoking repo by @minimaxir of the same name.