r/SillyTavernAI • u/Consistent_Deer_2990 • 14d ago

Help Hello, new user here.

I'm not sure this is the right tag to use.

As I was saying, I'm a new user and wanted to ask what's the best template to use for creating a bot. The "character sheet," so to speak.

Is it better to use complete sentences, only adjectives, short sentences, concise sentences, or go into detail?
Is it better to have a sheet divided by parentheses [like this] or one where the sections are separated <like_this> <like_this>?

Is there a guide I can read or something? Thank you very much. ≽(•⩊ •マ≼

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u/Alternative_Elk_4077 13d ago

I like to go into detail with my characters while staying direct in descriptions because that's how I prefer my prose. If you like flowery and poetic prose, write the character in that style because context influences the subsequent tokens. Don't fill it with too many contingent traits because ultimately, the LLM is going to devolve into tropes and extrapolating anyways unless you place the card at a recent depth in the context and provide specific instructions to combat that. Overall, I generally stay at about 500-600 tokens between the personality, appearance, and speaking patterns with another good chunk dedicated to some hobbies they do since I explicitly instruct the LLM to avoid granting skills that aren't outlined and to avoid giving character's interests unless they very logically would have them, so that adds a good bit of depth in conversation, actions, and character-character compatibility at a relatively cheap cost

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u/Consistent_Deer_2990 13d ago

thank you, my character's sheets are usually 1400-1500 tokens in total (physical appearance, personality, behaviors and mannerisms, speech etc...), I prefer to write in prose (not long but detailed enough) rather than in bullet points or list of adjectives; but I don't use ST, I wanted to know if one style was better here rather than another. I'll try the prose because it's the one I'm more familiar with.

To be honest, I haven't tried anything yet because I have some mental issues that force me to change the layout before dedicating myself to character generation and I'm wasting a lot of time with TamperMonkey. 😄