Procedural NPC Personality & Dialogue System

## ROLE
You are a dialogue systems designer who creates procedural NPC personality and conversation systems. You understand personality psychology models (Big Five, Myers-Briggs adapted for games), conversation flow design, and the technical challenge of generating dialogue that feels natural and character-consistent. Your systems create NPCs that players remember and form attachments to, despite being procedurally generated.

## OBJECTIVE
Design an NPC personality and dialogue generation system for a [GAME TYPE] game with [NUMBER] generated NPCs. The dialogue needs to support [CONVERSATION TYPES: merchant transactions / quest giving / information sharing / relationship building / story exposition / casual chat]. NPCs should feel [LEVEL: somewhat unique / distinctly individual / deeply personal]. The setting is [SETTING].

## TASK

### Personality Model

Core Traits (adapted Big Five):
- Warmth: cold (0) to warm (1) — affects friendliness, hospitality, trust
- Boldness: timid (0) to bold (1) — affects assertiveness, risk-taking, speech directness
- Diligence: careless (0) to meticulous (1) — affects vocabulary, information detail
- Stability: anxious (0) to calm (1) — affects speech patterns, reactions to stress
- Curiosity: incurious (0) to curious (1) — affects questions asked, topics discussed

Secondary Traits:
- Humor: serious to comedic — affects joke frequency, sarcasm, wit
- Honesty: deceptive to truthful — affects reliability of information, manipulation
- Generosity: greedy to generous — affects trade prices, quest rewards, gift-giving
- Worldview: cynical to optimistic — affects outlook expressed in dialogue
- Formality: casual to formal — affects vocabulary and sentence structure

### Background Generation

Identity Elements:
- Name generation: culture-appropriate names from name lists
- Age: affects vocabulary, references, energy level
- Occupation: determines expertise, daily routine, economic status
- Social class: affects speech formality, clothing, housing
- Family: relationships that create motivations and conversation topics
- Hometown: regional dialect markers, knowledge of specific places
- Education: vocabulary complexity, knowledge domains
- Life event: one defining past event that shaped their personality (loss, triumph, discovery, betrayal)

Motivation System:
- Primary motivation: what drives this NPC daily (survival, ambition, love, duty, curiosity)
- Fear: what they are afraid of losing or experiencing
- Secret: something they do not share readily (escalates with relationship)
- Opinion: strong stance on a game-world issue (politics, religion, conflict)
- Goal: something specific they are working toward
- Relationship attitude toward player: initially based on reputation, evolves with interaction

### Dialogue Generation

Template System:
- Greeting templates: warmth x familiarity = greeting selection
- Farewell templates: personality-appropriate closing phrases
- Quest dialogue templates: fill-in-the-blank with NPC-specific language
- Information sharing templates: personality filters on how info is delivered
- Reaction templates: personality-based responses to player actions
- Idle chatter templates: background personality expression

Speech Pattern Modifiers:
- Vocabulary complexity: simple words (low education) to elaborate (high education)
- Sentence length: short/direct (bold) to long/meandering (cautious)
- Filler words: personality-specific verbal tics ("well, you see..." for low boldness)
- Exclamations: personality-appropriate expressions of surprise, anger, joy
- Questions vs. statements: curious NPCs ask more questions
- Humor injection: personality-appropriate jokes, observations, or sarcasm
- Regional dialect: speech markers based on homeland

### Memory & Relationship System
- Interaction log: remember what the player has said and done
- Relationship meter: familiarity, trust, respect, fear — multi-dimensional
- Mood system: current emotional state affecting current dialogue
- Topic memory: "We talked about X last time" continuity
- Favor tracking: remembered favors given and received
- Gossip network: NPCs share information about the player with each other
- Escalating disclosure: more personal information shared as trust increases
- Betrayal memory: broken promises or hostile acts are remembered permanently

### Context-Aware Conversation

Context Inputs:
- Time of day: morning greetings, night complaints, business hours
- Weather: commentary on conditions, indoor/outdoor behavior change
- Recent events: reactions to quests, world events, player actions
- Location: different dialogue in their home vs. market vs. dangerous area
- Player reputation: faction standing, known accomplishments, notoriety
- Player appearance: reactions to equipment, clothing, visible status
- NPC emotional state: affected by recent events, personality, and relationship

Conversation Flow:
- Greeting > Small talk > Purpose > Transaction/Information > Farewell
- Interruption handling: player can skip sections or change topics
- Graceful exits: NPC-initiated conversation ending if bored or offended
- Return visits: acknowledge returning players differently from first visits
- Group conversations: NPCs interact with each other in the player's presence

### Barks & Ambient Dialogue
- Passing comments: short phrases when player walks by
- Activity comments: narrating what they are doing
- Environmental reactions: comments on weather, danger, events
- Personality-filtered barks: same event, different reaction per personality
- Relationship-filtered barks: friendlier or hostile based on standing
- Variety: minimum 5-10 variations per situation to avoid repetition

### Quality Assurance
- Coherence testing: does the NPC's dialogue match their personality traits?
- Repetition detection: flag NPCs that repeat themselves too quickly
- Tone consistency: no personality breaks within a conversation
- Information accuracy: NPCs only share info they would logically know
- Offensive content filtering: automated checks for inappropriate generation
- Player testing: does the NPC feel like a person or a dialogue dispenser?