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Lets you talk in real time to a video game NPC. You press space and then talk. After you release the spacebar, it converts your speech to text and sends it to chatGPT which is prompted to believe it is an npc in a video game. After ChatGPT generates its response, it is fed to a text-to-speech api which says it back to you in real time.

Author: Nathan Ulmer

Date: Saturday 20-01-2024

The intent was to experiment with the game design of an NPC which can generate new content, quests, interactions, etc. on its own without designer input. The designer would still have to give the NPC good prompts to tell it what its personality is, what it wants, etc. But the dialog itself could be generated to react to any input from the player, increasing immersion dramatically.

The end goal is to make a demo game where the NPC can operate as a bartender or trader that the player can interact with however they want. The npc should be able to trade and talk with the player. It should have knowledge of the world and its history and be able to see the player's clothes/appearance.

Todo: Fix references to secrets (api keys)

Todo: Refind prompts to make the ai more robust