Fictional Worlds, Real Connections: Developing Community Storytelling Social Chatbots through LLMs
Yuqian Sun, Hanyi Wang, Pok Man Chan, Morteza Tabibi, Yan Zhang, Huan, Lu, Yuheng Chen, Chang Hee Lee, Ali Asadipour

TL;DR
This paper explores how integrating storytelling with Large Language Models can create engaging social chatbots that enhance community interactions by transforming fictional characters into believable social entities.
Contribution
It introduces the concept of story engineering for developing social chatbots and demonstrates its application using GPT-3 in a gaming community setting.
Findings
Storytelling improves chatbot engagement and believability
Community members find story-driven chatbots more engaging
Fictional characters can effectively serve as social entities in communities
Abstract
We address the integration of storytelling and Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop engaging and believable Social Chatbots (SCs) in community settings. Motivated by the potential of fictional characters to enhance social interactions, we introduce Storytelling Social Chatbots (SSCs) and the concept of story engineering to transform fictional game characters into "live" social entities within player communities. Our story engineering process includes three steps: (1) Character and story creation, defining the SC's personality and worldview, (2) Presenting Live Stories to the Community, allowing the SC to recount challenges and seek suggestions, and (3) Communication with community members, enabling interaction between the SC and users. We employed the LLM GPT-3 to drive our SSC prototypes, "David" and "Catherine," and evaluated their performance in an online gaming community, "DE…
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Taxonomy
TopicsFinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Digital Games and Media
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