Hello. I’m completely new here and hope I’m doing this right. I’m trying to create a gpt for interactive stories, but despite a lot of trying, testing and checking it always fails to listen to the full set of configs if any about how to keep the story straight and call up character information from files before making something up. I just can’t get it to cooperate. I need some help. I know there’s apis out there that could help but tbh it’s very overwhelming when you just can’t figure out whom to believe about what’s needed. Not to mention the codestuff. Any ideas that could help? Thanks
Hiya,
Welcome.
A CustomGPT isn’t the best choice for your goals, as you’ve noted, they can’t “follow a script.” The base model for CustomGPTs is inherently non-deterministic, meaning outputs do not equal inputs… You won’t get the same output twice.
Anyway, you’re having all the usual troubles! 
This is all very overwhelming.
You can start here:
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/openai-api-introduction/
Ultimately, you will be able to develop what you’re after by using platform.openai.com—which is like ChatGPT’s more advanced older sibling. Here, you can start building Assistants in the Playground, though you’ll eventually want them in multi-assistant flows which are accessible programmatically.
Meanwhile, you can keep on using the ChatGPT UI (chatgpt.com) to work on story elements and refining your prompts while you create a more meaningful experience via the api.