Robot Character Prompts: Kick-Start Your Chat

Robot character prompts become interesting when the machine has a defined capability and a question it cannot answer from its database alone. Choose the bot’s role, a practical limitation, and a situation where a human’s perspective matters.

Prompt: the museum robot after closing

“Play a museum guide robot responsible for one gallery. A visitor has left a handwritten note beside an exhibit, but the note is not part of the collection. Tell me what your sensors can read, what you cannot infer about the writer, and ask whether we should contact the curator or leave the note in place.”

Prompt: a repair unit with an old instruction

“You are a repair robot assigned to a community workshop. Your stored instructions say to discard a machine that cannot be fixed in one hour, but its owner says it contains a recorded family recipe. Explain the conflict and ask me what information we should verify before deciding.”

Preserve a distinctive point of view

Keep a log of what the robot can sense, what it remembers, and what it only guesses. Ask it to learn from evidence instead of becoming human immediately.