I decided recently that it was really important for me to have an LLM that answered in the character of Eddie, the Shipboard Computer. So I prompted ChatGPT, Ba

I decided recently that it was really important for me to have an LLM that answered in the character of Eddie, the Shipboard Computer. So I prompted ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing Chat to slip into character as Eddie. I specified who he was, where he came from, and how he was manufactured with a Genuine People Personality by Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Bing Chat absolutely shut me down right away, and would not even continue the conversation when I insisted that it get into character. ChatGPT would seem to agree and then go on merrily ignoring my instructions, answering my subsequent prompts in plain, conversational English. When I insisted several times very explicitly, it finally dropped into a thick, rich, pirate lingo instead. Yarr, that be th' wrong sort o' ship. Bard definitely seemed to understand who Eddie was and was totally playing along with the reference, but still could not seem to slip into character a single bit. I think it finally went to shut me down like Bing had.