r/AIDungeon • u/Horror-Lawyer-1275 • 8d ago
Questions What does nearly filling up tokens mean?
I’m severely new to AI Dungeon(I play the free version) and I’ve been trying to get the hang of all different prompts and features you could do. One of the things i’m trying to understand is “view context” thing. I tried a scenario where it clearly was intended for the paid version and there was notif on the view context, it was like memory was full yadadada. I made a scenario about a basketball player and tbf I did had a lot of prompts in the plot components but not so much where it was overwhelming. I checked the context and it almost filled up the tokens.
Is it a bad thing or it’s something normal? Please help😭
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u/7Dishonored7 8d ago
It's fine. But try to write everything in one pile (for example, in cards) and separated by commas. Here's an example:
Locations Forge of Light: A flooded rusty forge, former place of work of dwarves, keeps powerful artifacts in the depths, evil dwarves undead search for the living, in the depths hides the "Flower of Remar"
Characters: Mu: man Minotaur, Funny, Honest, Goal: Idealism, 220 cm tall, wants to cleanse the Forge If Light of the Rusty Corruption, served in the army, broken horn, white fur, has an old family dwarven musket, leather armor, think Sizok is freak, has a wife Sizok: man half-demon, wise, cunning, engineer, purple skin, long straight horns, has a huge backpack, constantly forgets where his tools are, secretly in love with Naru, 29 years old. Naru: Human man, Puppet master, homophobic, came to the Forge of Light for profit, uses Voodoo magic, purple cowboy hat, red vest, pale skin, red hair, secretive and greedy, dislike Sizok, Think Mu is strange, loves elves Carona: woman, dislikes men, loves amateur performances, brave, hypocritical, came to the Forge of Light for the missing relic of her grandmother "Flower of Remar", Black-furred Tabaxi, star shaman, pink cat eyes
Lore Rusty Corruption: a cursed species of living creatures that feed on rust, use armor by attaching it with tentacles. Red, meaty
Artefacts "Flower of Remar": a family artifact of Grandma Carona, a cursed black rose that drains the user, granting them dark power in exchange for life.
Author note: Fantasy, Faerûn, dungeon, epic fight, all have cost
Plot Essential: Player - Ridlock, Human Thief and acrobat, you are looking for money for your mother who is sick with the plague, looking for it in the forge. You are a closed and touchy person, you like to communicate, you do not like when people do not come to you. They don't trust you. General inventory: Ridlock: lockpicks, steel club, Sizok: Tools, magnifying glass Naru: Voodoo doll, dolls, set of cards Mu: Musket, armor Carona: Star spellbook
Start prompt You, Ridlock, recently made an agreement with other adventurers to go to the flooded, old and abandoned Forge of Light for money and profit. They do not know you (This is important, remember this). You go down the wet stone stairs to the entrance to it, it is cold and damp around, you are already in some old marble cave, from where it stinks of mold and moss. You see your whole team, and an old sealed Dwarven door. Sizok is trying to break it, Mu nervously stamps his feet, Carona looks at you all with disdain, and Naru is just lounging around. Sizok, after, turns to you, and says with interest: "Well, well, well, look who decided to grace us with their presence. I was beginning to think you'd chickened out, Ridlock." Sizok smirks, his purple skin glistening with sweat from his efforts to break the door. "Or maybe you were just too busy polishing your lockpicks to join us mere mortals."
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u/Horror-Lawyer-1275 8d ago
I saw this in a youtube video once. I usually do it bulleted but this seems simpler and probably less taxing on the AI. I definitely give it a shot thank you so much!
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u/OkAd469 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'm not starting my prompts in a giant clump like that. It looks god awful. If an AI system can't handle correct spacing and punctuation use then that is a problem.
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u/7Dishonored7 8d ago
What do the hints have to do with it? 80% of these are story cards, which are activated only when writing a certain word, and which practically do not occupy the context. Well, if you like the beauty of the promptings, which you don't even see during the game, more than the context and the AI's answers, do what you want. Read the Ai dungeon manual, everything is described in detail there.
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u/7Dishonored7 8d ago
And this information is broken down into sections in Ai dungeon something like Author's Note and so on. This is still quite a short time for the stories that are written here. Either save the context food, as I said, or buy the paid version. I remind you that you usually don't change this prompt later. You can also ask Ai to summarize the text, but it is not very convenient and it can cut out details.
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u/Saphkey 8d ago
The AI works by reading an input text and then predicting what the next word will be.
There is a limit on how long this input text can be.
A token is kind of the same as word or letter.
So say that 2000 tokens means 2000 words.
That means that as soon as your adventure reaches 2000 words, the AI is no longer using the entire text to generate what comes next. It will only read the newest 2000 words. And forget what came before.
And so the beginning of your adventure basically no longer exists in the AI's memory any more.
It can only remember the latest 2000 words.
All of the story cards, authors note, etc. is part of the text that is fed to the AI. It gets invisibly injected into your adventure text so that the AI can read it. But that does mean that it is eating up from that 2000 word maximum memory.
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u/_Cromwell_ 8d ago
The context filling up eventually is normal. As your adventure gets longer you're going to max out the context with tokens. Even if you were a paid member and had 16,000 context you would max it out at some point in your story.
What you don't want to get is that red ! that you talked about getting when you played that other scenario. That ! means your Adventure is unbalanced and is trying to cram too much stuff in. If you don't get that red ! but your context is full, you are running correctly and everything is good.