Janitor AI Lets You Roleplay With Bots. The Formatting Conventions Are Non-Negotiable. Asterisks For Actions, Quotes For Dialogue.
Janitor AI is a roleplay chatbot platform where users create accounts at janitorai.com, configure custom User Personas, and search for character bots by genre. Users choose between the free native JanitorLLM or an external API for the underlying language model. The platform uses Markdown conventions: asterisks for actions and quotation marks for spoken dialogue. The whole system is designed for creative, emotionally nuanced scenarios without restrictive conversational filters.
This illustrates the principle of narrative scaffolding. The formatting conventions are not decorative. They are structural constraints that help the language model distinguish between narration and speech, which improves coherence. The mechanism is called semantic delimitation. By wrapping actions in asterisks and dialogue in quotes, you give the model clear signals about what type of output to generate next. Learn the syntax or produce incoherent stories.
The platform is operated at janitorai.com and offers a free native model called JanitorLLM alongside external API options for users wanting different backend performance.
- Go to janitorai.com and create an account. You will have access to the platform and its bot library.
- Configure a User Persona with your desired traits and preferences, then search for a character bot in a genre you find interesting. You now have a conversation partner.
- Start your conversation using the correct format. Type *walks into the room* for actions and "Hello there" for spoken dialogue. The bot will respond in kind and maintain narrative consistency.