Hold a conversation with the eighteenth century
EPIC gives you free, ready-made prompts to paste into your own AI chatbot. The AI becomes a real or typical person from colonial America, on a particular day, in a particular place, and you practice speaking with them in character.
Four parts, one paste
- EEngineThe rules: how to speak, stay in character, and coach you afterward.
- PPeriodThe world of one era, cut off at the day of your scene so the AI can't know the future.
- IIndividualWho the AI plays: their life, household, opinions, and voice.
- CConversationOne scene: the date, the place, who you are, and what's at stake. Includes background for you to study first.
Practice from your book
Interpreting the American Founding
1 exercise
18th Century English for History Interpreters
1 exercise
Scenarios
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C · Conversation Official
Asking about the tutor's post at Nomini Hall
Saturday afternoon, June 18, 1774. You are a young college man from the North, come to ask Philip Fithian about succeeding him as tutor to the Carter children, three weeks after Virginia's Assembly was dissolved over a fast day for Boston.
Saturday, June 18, 1774