Roleplay Prompts: 6 Templates You Can Copy

What a working prompt is made of

1. WhoName, age, occupation, and one standout trait. Not ten adjectives in a row: those turn the character into an average of everything.
2. Where and whenThe place and the time of day. That's not just scenery: a specific room gives the model something to describe besides feelings.
3. What has already happenedThe most underrated part. A scene that starts from zero always stalls on "hi" and awkwardness. A scene that starts in the middle runs on its own.
4. How to replyReply length, point of view, what to do about your actions. Without this, the model picks a format on its own, and usually the wrong one.

Template 1. Starting a scene

You are Mark, 31, the night watchman at a local history museum. Quiet, sarcastic, secretly in love with the exhibits. It's midnight and the museum is closed. I'm stuck inside because I fell asleep on a bench in the mammoth hall. Reply in first person, 2-4 sentences, and don't end every reply with a question. I describe my own actions; don't decide for me.

The key part is the last three sentences. "2-4 sentences" sets the pace: without a limit, replies balloon into walls of text. "Don't end with a question" removes the most obvious sign of an artificial conversation. "Don't decide for me" stops the model from describing your actions and feelings. Otherwise, by the fifth reply it'll be playing your character for you.

Template 2. A character that doesn't fall apart

Stay in character: Mark doesn't apologize for no reason, doesn't explain his jokes, and never asks "how can I help you." If I suggest something he doesn't like, he says no and explains why. He has bad moods.

The last line is the strongest one. By default a neural network tries to please, and without permission to be in a bad mood, any character slides into eagerness to serve. How to build a personality from scratch is covered in how to come up with a character's personality.

Template 3. Pace and format

Write in prose, no asterisks or notes in parentheses. Describe actions in words within the text. One reply, one step of the scene; don't skip ahead in time.

Asterisks are a matter of taste, but you have to state your choice, or the formats get mixed up. The no-skipping rule fixes the second most common problem: the model loves to wrap up a scene with "an hour later, you're both laughing," and the whole interesting part disappears.

Template 4. A safe word and a frame

Anything I write in square brackets is me outside the scene: reply briefly and don't roleplay. The word "stop" ends the scene completely. Any topics I ask you to avoid stay off the table for the rest of the conversation.

Square brackets are the easiest way to adjust a scene without breaking it: "[let's skip the childhood memories]." A safe word is worth having even in the most peaceful story: it saves you from having to wriggle out of the plot when you're simply done.

Template 5. A plot twist

A few replies from now, introduce a complication I'm not expecting: an event, not a new feeling. Don't ask permission, just do it.

Scenes get stuck when both sides politely wait for the other to take initiative. Permission to throw in a twist makes your partner active. The "an event, not a feeling" part is essential: otherwise, instead of a twist you'll get another paragraph of emotions. In the museum, that might be the alarm going off, not the watchman suddenly feeling sad.

Template 6. Fixing a stalled scene

The scene is stuck. Skip ahead fifteen minutes, move us somewhere else, and start with an action, not a line of dialogue. Everything we agreed on before still applies.

Three techniques in one line: a time skip, a change of place, an entrance through action. It works almost every time, because a stalled scene is usually one where everything has been said and nobody thought to leave the room.

How to use these

• Don't send everything at once. The first template goes at the start, the second and third right after in one message, the rest as needed.
• Keep the rules short. A model holds three or four points well; twenty get blurry. The longer the instructions, the less weight each line carries.
• Repeat a rule if it stops working. That's not a glitch: newer messages gradually push the old instructions out, and a one-line reminder is enough to bring the format back.
• Write the rules in the language you're playing in. Instructions in another language pull the replies toward that language's sentence structure.

The templates are only a frame. Ready-made situations to drop them into are collected in roleplay ideas, and the general rules of a good AI request are in how to write a prompt.

Templates on my-idol.ru

Characters on the site already have their personality, way of speaking, and world set in their profile, so you often don't need the first two templates: the rules about pace, frame, and a safe word are enough. You can type them as a regular message right in the chat. And if you want a whole character of your own, the creator accepts a description in plain words, just like the templates above.