Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the AI be Dungeon Master?

Posted by andrewstuart on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Just curious to know.

Say you took a Dungeons and Dragons adventure book, which describes an adventure and usually requires a Dungeon Master to guide the adventurers and bring it to life.

https://www.google.com/search?q=d+%26+d+adventure+books

If you fed that adventure book into AI could the AI then be the dungeon master?

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by jstarfish on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:33PM (#38798256)

Sure. It's already been done; the known prompts usually start with "act as a dungeon master..."

Context size limits will get you, so ChatGPT 3.5 won't work. You'd need something like superbooga or one of those "talk to your PDF" plugins to let the agent look up specifics from the book, since you can't embed the whole thing in the prompt.

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by maxrf on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:24PM (#38798165)

I doubt that would be enough to replace a good dungeon master - though you may get an oatmeal game...

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by ajuc on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:23PM (#38798152)

https://aidungeon.com/

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by andrewstuart on Thursday December 28, 2023 @03:33PM (#38798252)

That doesn't have anything to do with my question.

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by odedbendov on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:10PM (#38798660)

We're actually launching next week! Waiting as we speak for appreview

https://aigamemaster.app

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by odedbendov on Thursday December 28, 2023 @04:09PM (#38798651)

We're waiting for app review

aigamemaster.app

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Re:Ask HN: If you fed a D&D adventure book into AI could the... by odedbendov on Friday December 29, 2023 @04:20AM (#38803101)

Sorry, was quick to hit send - from our experience the AI will be a very permissive DM. It usually agrees with everything you say.

To add more structure and challenge to it, we took a hybrid approach of letting it do it's thing, while enforcing some strict rules in code.

Hope this helps!

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