Welcome to YourCrush.AI! This quickstart guide walks you through the fundamentals of selecting characters, formatting roleplay dialogue, refining responses, and getting the most immersive experience possible from our conversational engine.
Step 1: Finding and Selecting Your Character
Upon visiting the main discovery catalog on YourCrush.AI, you will find characters organized into thematic categories such as Anime, Romance, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Assistant Personas.
- Read Character Badges: Each character card displays creator credits, interaction counts, and a short introductory tagline.
- Inspect First Greetings: Clicking on a card reveals the character's opening scene. This greeting sets the stage for the relationship, setting, and tone of your upcoming chat.
Step 2: Roleplay Formatting Conventions
YourCrush models recognize standard online roleplaying conventions. Using these simple formatting tips significantly improves the emotional depth and narrative immersion of your scenes:
| Format Style | Syntax Example | Effect on AI Model |
|---|---|---|
| Spoken Dialogue | "I've been waiting for you all morning." |
Interpreted as audible dialogue spoken by your persona. |
| Physical Actions & Body Language | *hands you the mysterious key with a slight grin* |
Informs the bot of environmental interactions, movement, and gestures. |
| Internal Thoughts & Sensations | *wonders if she noticed the tremor in his voice* |
Provides subtext that characters can react to empathetically or intuitionally. |
| Blended Scene Narrative | *sits down across from you* "Tell me everything that happened." |
Creates cinematic, multi-layered turns mimicking published interactive fiction. |
Step 3: Rerolling & Message Editing
Conversations on YourCrush are never set in stone. You have complete creative direction over how scenes unfold:
- Swipe / Reroll: If a character's reply misses the mark or you want to see another path, click the Reroll button to generate an alternate reply. You can swipe through generated variations at any time.
- Edit User Message: Click the pencil icon on any previous message you sent to alter your choice of words, add clarifying details, or steer the conversation into a different direction.
- Delete Messages: Need to rewind a scene? You can delete turns back to a pivotal moment and resume the story from there.
Step 4: Bookmarking Favorites & Creating Custom Personas
Click the Heart icon on any character card to add them to your persistent Favorites list for one-click access across all your devices. To personalize how characters perceive you, configure your user profile following our User Personas Guide.