Fictional Worlds, Real Connections: Developing Community Storytelling Social Chatbots through LLMs

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2309.11478
• Publication Date: 2023-01-01
• Authors: Yuqian Sun; Hanyi Wang; Pok Man Chan; Morteza Tabibi; Yan Zhang; Huan Lu; Yuheng Chen; Chang Hee Lee; Ali Asadipour
• Keywords: Online Community

We address the integration of storytelling and Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop engaging believable Social Chatbots (SCs) in community settings. Motivated by potential fictional characters enhance social interactions, we introduce Storytelling (SSCs) concept story engineering transform game into "live" entities within player communities. Our process includes three steps: (1) Character creation, defining SC's personality worldview, (2) Presenting Live Stories Community, allowing SC recount challenges seek suggestions, (3) Communication with members, enabling interaction between users. employed LLM GPT-3 drive our SSC prototypes, "David" "Catherine," evaluated their performance an online gaming community, "DE (Alias)," on Discord. mixed-method analysis, based questionnaires (N=15) interviews (N=8) reveals that significantly enhances engagement believability SCs