Bravo (feedback)
Q8_0
Sillytavern (KoboldCCP)
preset: https://files.catbox.moe/qu0ou9.json
Ive been messing with this one for a good bit and i think i do say this is dang near perfect. that insane prose is very well there and most importantly the dialogue has a pulse. The preset i came up with is a bit weird, but it helps milk the model of as much creativity as it can before it goes absolutely insane rambling. i havent tested how well it fairs with long form (the furthest ive gotten so far is 20 turns), but i do notice very faint but noticeable quirks after only the first few turns. it really likes to latch on to eye color, at least mentioning or alluding to the color of char's eyes in every generation, as well as making every generation slightly longer untill it eventually constantly hits the limit a few turns down the line i dont know what thats about, its likely that just may be my stress-inducing preset, but thats just an FYI.
but overall i believe this is a success. i tend to RP with Femme fatale types and compared to V5, its night and day, though like V3, likes to amp up the aggressiveness, so i can definitely see both working together here. this may just all be placebo from staring at my screen all day, but i'm a happy man. i kinda wanna learn mergkit because now i have so many ideas haha.
I'm glad to hear you're enjoying this one a lot more! The model insisting on the eye colour of the character is something I've noticed from time to time too, even on the older Starcannons (and even Celeste). For me the responses tend to be within 100ish tokens of the previous response, though there of course are outliers (all I'm using are the standard ChatML presets with a blank system prompt). Mergekit is surprisingly easy to use, the hardest part is finding good models to merge and getting the right settings.
As I said in a previous discussion I'll be trying to do some of my own more original merges sometime, so I'll have to see how they perform.