Practical AI character guides.
Make a useful brief, understand memory and portability, and keep observations that help you choose the controls your story needs.
Choose a role for your next scene
Ten sourced writing partners, narrators, sandboxes and personas. See creator caveats, original opening messages and what to check in a trial.
Follow the conversation data
Compare visibility, access, learning, stored copies, deletion and exports across eight platforms. Keep source dates and open questions in view.
Give the traits something to do
Adapt six original characters. See how motives, observable habits, greetings and dialogue fit together, then open the complete definition in the builder.
What can you actually do without paying?
Compare seven platforms’ free chat, creation, avatars and voice. See finite allowances, separate model costs and unresolved conditions.
Understand what reaches the next reply
Separate written notes, recent messages, triggered lore and saved excerpts. Compare six platforms’ documented controls.
Check memory with a repeatable premise
Keep the same questions, record exact replies and export observations with their conditions. No automatic platform score.
Choose the platform around your character
Separate appearance, personality, saved context and model setup before making a shortlist.
Character cards, JSON, PNG and export
Understand what a file carries, which import routes are documented and what needs rebuilding.
Build a character definition you can keep
Write from scratch or use an original example. Download V2 JSON and a readable text brief in your browser.
The exercises are suggestions. Platform claims point to public sources; this edition does not claim paid-plan or long-term chat testing.
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