KoboldAI VS SillyTavern

Pygmalion for chatting, Erebus for story writing, Wizard Vicuna Uncensored for general use including chatting, story writing or instructing, to name a few. There's lots more, but most are just the raw models that users are expected to load themselves so there isn't anything quite like ChatGPT where you just load up a single website and have all of them there. You'll either have to set up a local install using KoboldAI for running only on GPU, KoboldCPP for running only on CPU with optional splitting between CPU and GPU, or Oobabooga for CPU, GPU and splitting between CPU and GPU, if you have a powerful enough PC to run these models yourself (a PC with a 3090 can load up to a 30B model entirely in GPU, or a 65B model if you have 64GBs of RAM and a decently powerful CPU). If you don't have a powerful enough PC then you'll have to use something like KoboldAI Lite (website version) or SillyTavern to use the horde, a crowdsourced AI chatbot/LLM runner that lets people provide their hardware for others to use.

INFO | __main__:general_startup:1312 - Running on Repo: https://github.com/0cc4m/koboldai Branch: latestgptq

Occam seems to be trying or adding that into Kobold (https://github.com/0cc4m/KoboldAI/tree/4bit-plugin)

Right, but it's certainly easier for people who might not even know what "API" stands for, and that's quite nifty. As far as self-hosted frontends go, I can personally recommend SillyTavern[1] in the browser, ChatterUI[2] on mobile, and ShellGPT[3] for CLI. LobeChat looks pretty cool, though! I'll definitely check it out.

[1] https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern

[2] https://github.com/Vali-98/ChatterUI

[3] https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt

I don't think there is any enumeration for {{char}} macros. Here is some good discussion on the subject.

As for SillyTavern, you need the main SillyTavern frontend and SillyTavern-extras (for TTS, STT, etc.) They're pretty easy to install. SillyTavern connects to oobabooga and SillyTavern-extras via API.

Finally, no matter what backend I use, I need it to be compatible with my power-user frontend, SillyTavern. That way I always use the same UI, with the characters I created and extensions I want, e. g. web search, XTTS text-to-speech and Whisper speech recognition for real-time voice chat - and all of that local!

SillyTavern v1.10.5 frontend (not the latest as I don't want to upgrade mid-test)