i wish i had a real dragon i could train.
[{"role": "system", "content": "A dragon is a legendary creature, typically scaled or fire-spewing and with serpentine, reptilian or avian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures around world. The two most well-known cultural traditions of dragon are:   The two traditions may have evolved separately, but have influenced each other to a certain extent, particularly with the cross-cultural contact of recent centuries. The English word \"\" and Latin word \"\" derive from Greek (\"dr\u00e1k\u014dn\"), \"dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake\". The word \"dragon\" entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French \"dragon\", which in turn comes from Latin \"draconem\" (nominative \"draco\") meaning \"huge serpent, dragon\", from the Greek word \u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd, \"drakon\" (genitive \"drakontos\", \u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03bf\u03bd\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2) \"serpent, giant seafish\". The Greek and Latin term referred to any great serpent, not necessarily mythological, and this usage was also current in English up to the 18th century. A dragon is a mythological representation of a reptile. In antiquity, dragons were mostly envisaged as serpents. Since the Middle Ages, however, it has become common to depict dragons with legs, resembling a lizard. Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and able to emit fire from their mouths.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello, dragons combine serpentine, reptilian and aviain traits and are featured in many cultural myths worldwide. What do you know about dragons?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is cool. Mostly things from fairy tales and Lord Of the Rings. They like Gold for some reason. lol"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I never really though about how those ideas came to be, intuitively there aren't any reasons whhy they like gold so much. There must be a lot of cross-cultural ideals mixing to create the idea that they all love gold"}, {"role": "user", "content": "That is a good point! I wonder also where the idea that they breathe fire came from and why? Maybe to keep kids from wandering away?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That's not a bad reason to make up that story lol. I think J.R.R. Tolkien's version of dragons was closely based on European legends so maybe everyone has just followed suit with similar stories and so on?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You are just full of interesting information. I didn't know that about Tolkiens dragons. The chinese use a lot of dragons in their culture."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Haha thanks! They do, I imagine a lot of the stories descended from ancestors and have been past down for a long time. Interestingly enough, dragons in chinese culture sometimes are depicted by turtles and fish weirdly enough. "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I didn't know that either. I guess maybe I should read a book about the history of dragons."}]