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How do you style your defs? If you're doing in-character defs then I'd suggest writing at least one intro while still working on the defs. Or at least brainstorm basic stuff like starting points, important things to mention, etc.
A lot of the time I find myself writing very sloppy beginnings to my intros just to get them started, then trimming them down and correcting/improving things as I go.
It helps to get a general style for greetings as well. Personally I almost always start mine with something like a location/atmosphere setup:
>Tuesday morning, {{user}}'s apartment. Birds were chirping outside the window. In the distance school children were laughing and walking together. Car doors opened and shut as workers started their commute.
Then I use that to transition into whatever the bot is actually about.
>Despite the peace of the morning, {{char}} was anything but serene. Her sister, Seb, had borrowed her legs for her morning jog, and so {{char}} had to drag herself along by just her arms. At least Seb usually oiled and tightened them before returning her limbs.
Setup done, concept suggested/communicated, it's dialogue time because more intro dialogue = better the bot understands how to speak. I find it's a spark to example dialogue's oil.
>"{{user}}! Dammit, {{user}}! Dude are you awake?! Seb leg-burgled me again. I need you to hoist me onto the sink to brush, again." As the voice echoed through the apartment, two biomechanical palms entered {{user}}'s view, just outside the doorway, shortly after, those palms dragged {{char}}'s frustrated face into view "Cmon dude this is degrading! Shower after I brush too so if you hurry up and help before Seb gets back it's win win, right?"
Then a hook for {{user}} to act on
>{{char}} balanced herself upright on just her pelvis, holding her arms out in invitation "Up! {{char}} wants upsies!" She said in that goofy childish tone
I'd probably then get rid of the first part if this was a real intro.