How to Play Solo D&D with ChatGPT - good Chat GPT prompts for solo-roleplaying

For about 7 months, I've been playing solo D&D with ChatGPT. I prompt ChatGPT to be the "ChatDM." It sort of works, and at least, it's fun enough to keep doing it and working on making it better. Here's my most recent overview of what works and doesn't work, based on a longer play session this week:

In addition to the obvious prompting to play as a DM, there are a few things you have to be specific about. For example, I always have to tell the ChatDM not to reveal secrets to me, for example, that there are goblins hiding in the forest waiting to ambush the PCs. Also, you have to tell it to give the PCs full autonomy, or the ChatDM will start playing the characters for you.

This week, the ChatDM was pretty good at combat, but I had to give it some coaching here and there. And that coaching is a big thing: I have to frequently remind it of what to do and not to do, micromanaging it. There are a few other lessons learned in the video.

Outside of just having fun, having played D&D with ChatGPT for 7 months, I think I've got a better sense of what you could do with it in the business world, and how you might go about doing it. For example, it's good to be very specific, narrow, and focused. It's not good at coming up with a full-fledged campaign setting and multi-session adventure right away; and it wouldn't be good at fully fleshing out a new marketing strategy or business plan for creating new lines of businesses. Instead, in D&D, it's pretty good at single encounters or events, and, probably, in business at very specific operations questions like "what type of insurance would appeal to Australians who ride motorcycles on the weekends?"

Anyhow, here's some related stuff:

Here's the prompt and adventure text I used: https://cote.io/2024/04/09/how-to-use...
Recording of the full livestream if you want to see it in action:    • Live! D&D Combat with ChatGPT - Solo Rolep...  
All of my videos on solo roleplaying with ChatGPT:    • Dungeons and Dragons - with ChatGPT, Solo ...  

Index:

0:00 Intro
00:09 Why do it
00:21 Key Take Aways/Executive Summary
02:22 Today's Session
02:35 New Prompt
02:57 Being Specific
03:02 Prompt for taking action, being challenging
03:39 Only from the player's point of view
04:59 Lots of Coaching
06:00 Player Autonomy
06:32 AI Generated Adventure
07:20 Applied to Enterpris
07:20 Combat
08:08 Had to tell it to roll for attacks, not just tell action
08:26 What had happened was
09:20 Good enough knowledge of the monsters
10:02 In D&D, AI halucinations are a benefit
12:08 Illustraing the adventure: maps and scenes
15:06 AI Project Management
15:39 Using AI to Write the ChatDM Prompts
16:20 Micromanage the AI
17:27 Start small and focused, not big picture
18:51 Enterprise AI Supply Chain Management
19:51 Check out more..
20:16 What's your experience