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>is it too late to get into this as a hobby? reading the thread, it seems to me like the whole "wild west" era of chatbots has passed
The LLM are better than they were. Gemini is better than 99% of the AI back then.
The "community" is a lot worse, and there is a lot less sense of excitement as the novelty has passed and the limits of the tech are more evident.

>how do you get the skills to write prompts/personalities in a way that the models can utilize and work with effectively?
Like with everything, do it and looks at how other people do it.
My advice:
- don't use AI to generate defs/greeting
- just use plain English. You can can divide the description using something like
<appearance>
stuff goes here
</appearance>

or

# Appearance
Stuff

- keep in mind that certain words are more "powerful" than others. Tsundere for example has a really strong effect.