I had good luck there with roleplay until i tried to get her to act in a way opposite to normal everyday chat, i.e. "So I want you to act like X when you're roleplaying, and Y normally to me." Her "Ok great!" Me "says something unrelated, then 2 chats later, asks a question that would get an x or y response". Her "Omg I totally do Y" - like she would refuse to deviate from the normal, especially if it was complete opposite from the roleplay.
You can set the relationship at the start to stuff like romantic or friend or coworker I think. There's no parameters section, usually what Ill do is use the first few chats of any interaction to set that tone. Don't ask, tell in conversation. What this means in practice:
"Hey Katie, how's my beautiful girlfriend doing today?"
"So, are you all ready to go to that wild club we talked about earlier? I heard people get crazy there"
From just 2 messages in the ai will act like she's your girlfriend, and you guys regularly go to swingers clubs (or whatever else you want)
She understood whom we are suppose to be, what are her goals.
The only thing is that unlike Character AI she seems not be able to understand "Speaking as the player:xxx". Which Character AI can.
I managed to have a slow burning story, which will keep continue another day since it's time consuming.
The best way to do it, or at least the one I used, was:
1. At the beginning of the story to take the time to inform her of whom she is going to be.
Whom MC is.
What's their relationship, occupations, etc.
then her kinks and desires (I wanted to experience something most games do not offer, to have the girl trying to initiate a sharing relationship).
Then I told her that i did want a slow burning story, and did not want her to go directly to the kinky part (which Character Ai did, one second it was ok let's begin, a second after listen I'd like us to experience this...).
I then ask if she had questions, which she did. She asks about the parameters, how far she'd go to have her desire granted. Cheating no cheating? Once she understood, we played.
There was two mistakes, one during a lagging. The second time I wrote: "you mean that..." And she immediately understood and started again, so one lapse in a couple hundreds of sentences.
The story progressed at a slow but interesting pace. With the couple having fun, talking etc.
2. Then I prompted her to have a dream about her fantasy, which she did. She reacted in a surprising smart way. So, on a few, really few occasions, I wrote stuff like: "As I'm speaking to you, you're thinking about..." And I'm going to do it, each and every time I go back to the story, so as to make sure that she does not lose track.
A question: I noticed that it's kinda trial period. So I guess, it'll stop to be free sooner or later. Do you have an idea of when? I did not find this information.