Add AI

[amiroo]

Hello everyone. This game is great but it needs something like AI.
Right now we can only listen to the characters and only sometimes they ask us questions and we can answer them.
It would be better to add an offline text AI to the game so that we can talk to each character at least 2 times a day or give them a request. This way if we have been good to a character before, he will fulfill some of our requests.

 

[Terdin]

It really doesn't need that.

 

[Hollyfox]

no it doesn't need that. i'd say the character interactions are great right now

 

[Lew Zealand]

AI will need to become significantly better before game devs add it in as an in-game dialog option. And Stardew specifically won't get AI as ConcernedApe said so, and one of the charms of this game is the personal interactions. Written by a person with feelings drawn from life events, not a homogenized amalgamation of generic interactions summarized by a large language model. LLMs have excellent use cases when it comes to data reduction tasks like that. But this game is all about particular types of interactions and how someone might reach in that moment, while language models do the opposite: give a genericized version of events.

If you're looking for more Stardew-type content maybe try reading any of the stories that hundreds of people have written about their characters or in the Stardew setting, either here in the Fan Works sections or out on the wider internet. There are loads of stories stuffed full of heart and fun and whimsy and humor. In fact it'd be interesting to prompt an LLM to write a Stardew fanfic and see how well or terribly it does compared to a human writer.