Comment by Terr_

> This is essentially declarative programming.

I think it's step more-abstract that that, we're doing... How about "narrative programming"? (Though we could debate whether "programming" is still an applicable word.)

Yes, it may look like declarative programming, but it's within an illusion: We aren't aren't actually describing our goals "to" an AI that interprets them. Instead, there's a story-document where our human stand-in character has dialogue to a computer-character, and up in the real world we're hoping that the LLM will append more text in a way that makes a cohesive longer story with something useful that can be mined from it.

It's not just an academic distinction, if we know there's a story, that gives us a better model for understanding (and strategizing) the relationship between inputs and outputs. For example, it helps us understand risks like prompt-injection, and it provides guidance for the kinds of training data we do (or don't) want it trained on.