What? No. I know that genAI is probably going to sweep our local universe even unto the near future, but it will be nice to have at least a few enclaves where it doesn't touch here and there.

If you want to read a book that feels like a touch of Narnia embedded with a little romance and the legerdemain of The Folk of Air. You will find a good story here.

As a person with that condition myself, I found an odd kinship to his character. Although I don’t have the benefit of magical glasses that fix it.

The prince in the book has dyslexia, an unexpected disability to appear in a fantasy book.

Like almost every fantasy protagonist Dori has a magical gift and I guessed exactly what it was right away. The guess spoiled nothing, it just set me up for further revelations.

All the characters felt bright & I found myself turning pages, long even after evening dark. Especially the main character, given the surprise name Dorcas (I mean, Dori).

Even in the thick of the storytelling, Touch of Kindness found itself an emotional exploration of self and romance; filled with both the mundane and the eloquent at turn.

Like most fantasy novels, it has fantastic realms and regal aristocracy filled with the palaver of politics and rules, incumbent to the entourage of tropes that come with that.

Touch of Kindness: An emotional adventure in storytelling

www.amazon.com/Touch-Kindne...

This could include industry standards, trends, controversies, news, etc. However, it could go wildly bad, even with a values document, given how other AI models in the past given access to the Internet have become biased in *terrible* ways. So I'll be careful experimenting.

I'm also building a research system that will allow Odalis to form opinions on topics. I'm going to use agents to look at industry opinions, sift through them, and compare them to a values document to create opinion documents she can use when asked what she thinks.

As a result, I'm writing my own personalized memory system that can identify the same user, different usernames, on Discord/Twitch. How to make the system appropriately change when people quit a username and come back with a new one (and say so) might be difficult to automate.

I'm currently working on two separate systems, of different complexity. The first is long-term memory (of discussions and user preferences). There are some libraries that already exist that do this such as mem0, but I want her to to track usernames between Discord and Twitch.

I hadn't considered people might want to ask her what they should do in a given game. Sometimes giving a set of options (should I do this or that?) or just an open ended question. So I changed her behavior so that she'd use her vast knowledge to offer options.

This has led me to adjust her system prompt multiple times in order to help cover generic use cases. A lot like how one might examine customer service. Her job, essentially, is to talk about MMOs. This means that there are certain types of questions she might answer.

I also finally moved Odalis out of her test sandbox and into the real, actual Discord community so that more people could talk to her about gaming.

Now, if people say good morning/good evening or even ask about the library or the weather, Odalis will have a highly immersive answer. I made pixiestorms the least likely weather and they only last around 2-4 hours, but it's still amusing when one happens.

I included daytime descriptions for particular seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter) and different types of weather including clear, rain, snow, fog and pixiestorms. Of course, since the library is in Tir na Nog, pixies might get up to mischief.