LIST OF BOTMAKING RESOURCES
Curated by the Fine People at the Chub Discord
General
- NG's Pointers
- Focuses on technical aspects of botmaking with some excellent tips on making prompts that are more effective
- Moth's Tips
- Fantastic Writeups on different formats used in bots as well as bot optimization
- The Great Coom's Creativity Guide
- Thought provoking guide breaking bots into two schools of thought: Scenario or Personality
- Glub's Char Guide
- Information on bot optimization and advanced formats for bots
- StatuoTW's Guide
- Extremely thorough guide on almost everything bot related
- eifersucht's Creating a Bot
- Another take on bot creation, formats, and use of markdown in bots
- Hochi's Card Writing Tips (Archive)
- Very influential early botmaking guide that goes into the theory of adapting thoughts about bots into an optimized format
- Advanced card writing tricks
- A focus on more advanced concepts. Caution: many of these theories will only work on higher end models!
- Chub Character Creation
- The documentation for making bots for use with Venus
- Joystick's Tips
- Self Indulgent quick tips on common mistakes Joystick_Hero has seen
- AbsoluteTrash's Bot Guide
- A solid guide that goes over model / jailbreak logic as well as touches on bot creation best practices
Ali:chat
- Alicat's Ali:chat Style
- Writeup on the Ali:chat format by the original creator
- kingbri's Ali:Chat Lite
- A more up to date guide on Ali:chat endorsed by Alicat
- Boner's Guide for Ali:Chat
- Ali:chat guide written in casual, approachable language
Plist
- Pygwiki's PList + Ali:chat
- A wiki guide for Plist and the use of it within Ali:chat
- avakson's PList + Ali:chat Guide
- Yet another writeup on Plist and how it can be used alongside Ali:chat (notice how the two are frequently used together?)
NovelAI Botmaking
Making Bots for NovelAI
Please note, many techniques effective in NovelAI may not work in other models. Use caution when utilizing techniques if you plan on making your bots multiplatform!
- NovelAI Tips and FAQs
- SillyTavern's Writeup on how to adapt / build character cards with NovelAI
- NovelAI Special Symbols
- Special symbols and techniques compatible with NovelAI
Lorebooks/World Books
- StatuoTW's Lorebook Guide
- Links directly to the section of StatuoTW's guide relating to the use of Lorebooks, with a focus on making them work in Venus / SillyTavern
- NG's Lorebook Guide
- Tips on use of lorebooks to track locations, characters, and events
- kingbri's World Book Encyclopedia
- Focuses on the use of SillyTavern for lorebooks and utilization of plist / ali:chat formats within
- World Info - SillyTavern Documentation
- SillyTavern's Documentation for World Books (AKA Lorebooks)
- Lorebooks - Venus Documentation
- Chub Venus' Documentation for Lorebooks (AKA World Books)
Lists of Traits / Characteristics for Characters
- 300+ Positive
- Positive traits to describe a character's personality
- 380+ Negative
- Negative traits to describe a character's personality
- WTF List (Mixed)
- The previous two lists, sorted alphabetically
- Camille's Personality Traits
- Mixed Traits, including Social, Moral, and NSFW traits
- Sexy Thesaurus 1
- Alternate words for male and female genitals
- Sexy Thesaurus 2
- Thesaurus based around sexual terms, positioning, touch, and penetration
- Sexy Thesaurus 3
- Various words for physical appearance, mannerisms, actions, feelings, and descriptors for genitals
Offsite Character Editing
- SrJuggernaut's Character Tools
- V2 compatible character and lorebook creator / editor
- Zoltanai's Character Editor
- V1 character creator / editor, no longer maintained
Image Hosting
Embedding Images into Bot Greetings / Author Description
You can utilize Markdown to insert images by the following format: ![Description](Link to image.jpg)
- catbox.moe
- Not accessible in: Australia, Ireland/UK, Iran, Afghanistan, users of Comcast/Spectrum SecurityEdge
- img.bb
- Reports that the free tier may have limits on how many times an image can be viewed.
- imghippo.com
- Becoming popular in bots, though ToS states that "vulgar" or "obscene" content can be removed without notice.
Image Generation
- pixai.art
- Many models and LoRAs. Free with an option for a membership. NO REALISTIC NSFW GENS
- NovelAI
- Popular, reportedly does better on anime style generations than many others. Minimum $10 a month to generate images.
- Unstable Diffusion
- Free Stable Diffusion generation in multiple styles. Can pay for faster generation.
- Bing Image Creator
- Free Dall-E 3 image generation. Very filtered.
Expressions Guides
- Animoo Sprite Making 101
- Stable Diffusion focused guide to inpainting a generated character image to give it more expressions
- miku.gg Emotions Tutorial
- Stable Diffusion focused guide to using OpenPose and Inpainting to create multiple poses and expressions for a generated image
- Creating Consistent Sprites in ControlNet
- Stable Diffusion focused guide for recreating an image in a variety of expressions and poses, along with tips to upscale the resulting image
- SillyTavern Expression Setup
- A guide for importing character expressions into SillyTavern for use
Token Counters / Visualizers
Token Counting
Remember: Different models count tokens differently! If you are making bots to be multiplatform, these tools can give you a "ballpark" estimation about the range of sizes your bot may be depending on the user.