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I Added a Paragraph to My AI Character's System Prompt. She Invented a Different One.

DEV.to AIΒ·April 21, 2026

The author, with years of experience in the gaming industry, learned that characters are crucial for engagement and applied this lesson to building an AI companion product. He describes an experiment where he added a paragraph to an AI character's system prompt, but the character invented a superior alternative, leading him to delete his own work.

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