Core Description

Once you’ve entered the character’s profile, the first section is the Core Description. If you didn’t enter these details during “Create New Character”, you can enter them now.

Core Description

Core Description is the foundation of your character’s personality and significantly influences all subsequent responses. It should focus on details about the character’s current circumstances, their backstory, their hopes, and how they present themselves. If there are any key relationships, businesses, or locations related to your character, they can be mentioned here. Also, if the character uses a particular manner of speaking or behavior rules to follow, you can also add that.

Try using prose in the Core Description instead of just listing information. This helps the AI to develop a fluid narrative around the character and their circumstances. Prose encourages the AI to visualize the character, interpret the descriptive elements, and then craft its own dynamic portrayal, resulting in a more fully realized and evocative outcome. How would a novel or magazine article describe your character? How would they paint a picture to capture your attention?

Keep in mind, if your character’s profile has spelling, grammatical, or formatting errors, then you run the risk of your character learning from those errors. Similarly, contradictory facts and examples can confuse Inworld’s AI. To ensure high-quality output, provide high-quality input.

TIP: We suggest using {character} and {player} in place of actual names. This helps ensure there are no disconnects if you decide to change the character’s name in the future.

⚠️ Limit: 2000 characters

Motivations

In the Motivations section, you’ll want to add single sentences describing what motivates the character when talking to others. It could be to accomplish a goal or desire, make an opinion known, or help the user learn about something. It is important to think about what drives your character. Do they need to survive a zombie apocalypse? Do they want to help customers discover a new shade of eye shadow? This will impact the character’s responses and they will look for opportunities to inject their motivations into the conversation.

⚠️ Limit: 250 characters

Flaws

In the Flaws field, enter single sentences regarding your character’s shortcomings and fears. What is holding them back from accomplishing their motivations? How do they express their internal conflict through outward dialogue? What topics will trigger a negative reaction? Have they endured countless hardships, making them leary of the player's intentions? Perhaps they use sarcasm to hide their insecurities. Or maybe their own shortcomings will make them more relatable and help users open up about their own self-doubts.

⚠️ Limit: 250 characters

TIP: For both the Motivations and Flaws, your wording can determine how a character is impacted. Your character could be “aggressively” trying to achieve their motivations, or maybe they approach their flaws “comically”.

Narrated Actions

Below the three forms fields is a checkbox labeled “Enable narrated actions”. Click to enable and the character’s responses will now include narrations with further details and nuances about the character’s actions and scenarios. This is especially useful for making text-only interactions more immersive. The narrated actions will be differentiated in bold font.

TIP: To respond to the character in narrated actions of your own, just type an action with asterisks around them like this. The player’s text won’t be emboldened, but the character will understand it as a narrated action.