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17/12/23	- Integrating UI to the progress so far.

• Did initial system designs of the overall lore machine system and its subcomponents
• iterated on a gpt prompt in incoporating a bit of narrative theory to add a dimension of interpersonal drama between the npcs
• Townhall memory modeling
• Prompt testing w/ openAI testing grounds | - Currently dockerizing the eternum repo stack
• Networking for overlore service: websocket x graphql
• Adding websockets to the client for easier communication with our backend.
• UI: new panel listing realms' npc's, townhall chat polishing | no | none yet | | | 24/12/23 | Price comparisons of different hosts and LLM providers Research on running LLMs locally for cost reduction | Rebasing our fork of Eternum to latest v0.3.0 branch’s commit Our backend project now subscribes to real events of the Realms universe Eternum and our backend now are able to run in a contained environment | no | / | | | 31/12/23 | - Research on pricing for LLM models | - Npc UI list (client side)
• Implementation of a vector DB to store townhall discussions
• Parsing and storage of Realms events
• Refining of the Docker stack | no | / | | | 03/01/24 | | | no | / | | | 10/01/24 | - Research + testing with nearest neighbour vs cosine similarity for NLP data retrieval
• Retrieval of 5 most relevant events based on: time, distance, general importance
• Exploration of syncing the whole world state from torii to a local object | - Worked on implementing sqlite DB with sqlite-vss vector attributes
• Adding geodata plugin in the SQLite database for distance queries (spatialite extension) | | | | | 17/01/24 | - debugging docker system in preparation for end to end testing and usage of litefs for syncing
• Attribution of importance score to events based on damages during an attack, quantities of ressources stolen for a pillage, quantities of ressources trade for a trade.
• Assessment of leftover tasks to have a working memory for villagers :) | - Finished implementing sqlite DB handlers used to store townhall discussions and realm events
• Clearer typing of our backend (lore-machine)
• Add more rigorous testing of events related code | Soon! | / | - Architecture: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVN82cd3I=/?share_link_id=698225983958
• Long overdue link to our inspiration for our memory model: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442 | | 24/01/24 | - Working memory for villagers: storage of events, retrieval of important events, retrieval of relevant previous townhall meetings, storage and vectorization of new townhall, basic display of townhall.
• Drafts and flowcharts for UX/UI
• Fixing our GPT interface
• Sync state of events db to torii on boot | | no | / | | | 31/01/24 | - Improvements in error handling
• Iterations on prompt: prompt engineering to get better outputs from our villagers | - Improvements in networking
• Rebase on top of 0.3.0 branch of Eternum to keep our repo up-to-date with latest game mechanics | no | / | | | 08/02 | - improvements in logging
• Focus was on iterations of the prompt | | | | | | 21/02 | - UI improvements
• Implementing a new npc_spawn db to handle contract calls
• Small QOL improvements on existing prompts
• Adding new prompt to generate npc names and traits
• Improvements in design in the spawning of NPCs and for the process of changing an NPCs character trait | | Yes! Working memory implemented for our villagers! | | | | 11/03 | - Design and preparation for the next feature: allowing NPCs to travel between different Realms.
• Add popups for each NPCs to display their individual stats
• Spawning of NPCs is now done on chain. We also implementing a signature verification system for our contracts to prove that the data provided in the transaction is sent by our LLM. This is done to avoid having spawns of NPCs from arbitrary data. | - Output validation of LLM to get consistent results on queries. | no | / | | | 18/03 | - Improved prompting to include npc ‘thoughts’
• Data storage refactoring
• Allow NPCs to travel! Smart contract part is done and the UI is following, we’re already able to send them from one Realm to another
• Adapt on-chain type of NPCs to ease the travelling feature | | no | / | | | 25/03 | - Added + refactored testing of db handlers
• Travel NPCs smart-contract related function such as: kick out unwanted NPC, welcome an NPC into your Realm.
• Travel for NPC UI tasks | / | Yes! Travel for NPCs milestone is completed | / | Remodelled UI coming soon! | | 01/04 | - Prompt engineering | - Switched our backend communication from ws to json-rpc | no | | | | 08/04 | - Testing of load of the json-rpc server
• Prompt engineering
• We’re getting way more interesting results with our prompts
• Implement Faker library to generate randomised names
• UI redesign (WIP) | / | no | / | Will send screnshots of new design when it’s completed | | 06/05 | - UI redesign implementation
• Add json-rpc methods to allow fetching of past conversations and NPC backstories
• Prompt engineering
• Final steps before integration into Eternum’s main branch: deployment of lore-machine backend onto cloud platform
• Filter villagers in UI | - Code refactoring
• Rebase on top of Eternum’s latest release: adapting UI | | | |