SillyTavern VS KoboldAI-Client

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)

You can use KoboldAI to run a LLM locally. There are hundreds / thousands of models on hugging face. Some uncensored ones are Pygmalion AI (chatbot), Erebus (story writing AI), or Vicuna (general purpose).

GPT-J 6B is a pretty weak and outdated model. Nerys 13B would probably give you better replies but they lean more towards SFW stuff. Erebus was their best model for erotic roleplay but they removed it as it went against Google's TOS. You can check out their documentation here.

If you do have that kind of hardware, the next step would be looking for what model to run. I came across Kobold's models. Their main github page is here: https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client

Then there are graphical user interfaces like text-generation-webui and gpt4all for general purpose chat. There are also KoboldAI and SillyTavern, they have focus more on storytelling and roleplay and have tools to improve that.

And finally the folks from the KoboldAi do some interesting stuff with Pseudocode and Soft-Prompts that might also be relevant.

Click this link. ---> https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client/tree/main

Do you believe the problem could be that my KoboldAI is outdated? I did download the one from henk717 at https://github.com/KoboldAI/KoboldAI-Client but it was a little while ago.