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My experience with the 'look how amazing it is at writing' is being exceedingly bored by the prattling on without substance.
Like sure the style and structure can be less obviously bad, but it is still ultimately senselessly padding out a short prompt into a mountain of words that say no more than what the short prompt conveyed in the first place.
If I want to dwell on some imagery, I can and have set down a book and just contemplated what I read and let it fill my mind. I don't need a ton of words to force me to linger.
It wouldn't be long monologues. It's short bits of conversation, or maybe 1 sentence descriptions.
Again, throw everything you think you know about chat models out of your head. Throw everything related to multi-turn conversation and prompt engineering out.
The prompt would look like a mess of programming variables: Rimworld skill levels and passions, traits, injuries, clothes and their state, logs of events, maybe a plot of entities around them. It would condense a bunch of information down (to, say, some reasonable quip of dialogue this character would say,) which is what text modeling was supposed to do before these stupid chatbots came in and spammed everything up.
I get the sentiment that, sometimes, imagination is better. I like to read, or write out stories stuck in my head.
...But sometimes I'd rather play a game.