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Smaller or bigger presets for better quality? When does a preset become "bloated"?

My preset (you might know it as Writer's Block) can be big as it take around 6-9k~ tokens. I heard that range is bloated for a preset but I like the results. So I've been tinkering with it, keeping in mind of the size and I have two routes/ideas for its new version.

Route 1 is my current WIP. It's a version with slimmed down prompts but, I added more prose and style guidelines. It still uses around 6-7k tokens however I still gotta test how well the AI will follow the new instructions.

Route 2 is to slim down the preset all across the board without adding anymore big things. I'll replace the current prompts with something snappier and consolidate to reduce token size to possibly get it around mid 5k or lower but I heard thats still big and bloated, and the less detailed prompts might affect the quality of the responses.

I try to make sure my instructions are direct and don't contradict each other by feeding everything to Gemini and asking for any corrections.

The feedback on my public preset Writer's Block so far has been positive but I want some more technical advice.

Basically, does size matter? Should I even care about preset bloat? My life's gonna get busier so I want only the best quality whenever I use SillyTavern.

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u/Deiomo — 5 days ago
▲ 28 r/Welding

Failed both official 3g and 4g SMAW tests last year. Passed my dual shield 3g today. Good enough to get my foot in the door?

I'm also about to graduate from community college with an associates welding degree but only having one real cert while a couple of my classmates passed both 3g and 4g kinda makes me worry about job opportunities.

u/Deiomo — 11 days ago
▲ 111 r/SillyTavernAI

My previous Reddit post for more details of this preset (I don't want to write everything again): Writer's Block 2 Electric Boogaloo

What is the point of Writer's Block? It's to enhance the prose of AI by copying popular authors and styles and to provide a solid narrative base while being relatively simple.

Disclaimer: This preset wasn't made with traditional RP in mind (a lot of the popular presets don't allow AI to speak or act for you, e.g., "no impersonation," only speak for {{char}} etc.). While I did put in a roleplaying mode and a conversational style for options, I'm not really interested in that.

Writer's Block leans into giving the AI full control of characters (including the {{user}}) with you acting as the director or giving instructions to a sentient persona. Having trouble roleplaying with your characters? Use this preset to overcome your "writer's block." And with the new mode in this update, I made it lean into the autonomy more.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dgw8t8lbfhvcetoznqgio/Writer-s-Block-3.145-Divided-by-2-In-3DD-Write-Harder.json?rlkey=a0rrf0l1gqhii1vw8aaqq2gzd&st=4slsbjmf&dl=0

Edit: Just realized chat history is turned off (I wanted to see the total tokens excluding the history) remember to turn that on sorry 😔 And turn on the preset regex if it's turned off. Also change the role of CoTs from user to system if using Deepseek V4 as it would not follow the CoT format in user role.

What's New in Writer's Block 3.1415/2:

  • New Major Thing: Living Story mode (For Active Persona) A dedicated simulation CoT that forces the AI to act as a DM. Live through your worlds with a unique perspective. You guide a mostly autonomous {{user}}. You, the human, provide the intent of the {{user}}; the AI will rewrite, act, and speak for your character based on their established personality, flaws, and history. The Living Story mode comes with two versions.
  • Survival Mode: Hunger, thirst, physical ailments, and wealth actively restrict your capabilities and alter the AI's consequences.
  • Adventure Mode: The same thing but with hunger, thirst, and ailments removed. Wealth stays.
  • New style, Ecchi Anime: For you softcore degens. The universe will bend logic to bring out those classic ecchi tropes.
  • New add-on, Narrative Hooks. Give the AI a list of scenarios and make it determine the most suitable path to push the narrative forward.
  • Added in a new step in the CoT. AI will determine dialects of the characters.

New Technical Stuff (Boooring)

  • I am now using XML tags (<example_prompt> </example_prompt>) to structure my prompts for better readability for AI.
  • Editor's Notes tracker now uses a regex for cleaner context while keeping the HTML graphics.
  • Added a simplified tracker that doesn't require regex or fancy graphics. Added trackers for the new Living Story Mode for both survival and adventure.
  • Modified the prompts a bit for Deepseek V4. The CoT should work properly now.

Recommended Models

  • GLM 5.1 works best (I use the official z.ai API). Deepseek v4 pro can work well, but it is inconsistent on Nanogpt at least. I suspect it because it's getting different quantization depending on the time. I recommend using OpenRouter or the official Deepseek API.

The big western LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) I am not sure how well the preset performs, but it should at least work well on Gemini since I used it to help me write the prompts.

I was surprised by the amount of support I got on here and on Discord. I am honestly very glad because I am just a complete casual, and I was just adding in stuff I like in this preset. I'll (maybe!) keep working on this preset if you give me any suggestions but no promises.

Also, I was high on an edible when I got GPTimage to make the poster. I kept it because I thought it was funny. Naked Gun reference 👍

u/Deiomo — 21 days ago
▲ 15 r/SillyTavernAI

My custom prompt made with Gemini does a decent job of removing slop like that for GLM but Deepseek is one hardheaded faka and it keeps outputing "Not X but Y." / "It X, not Y" etc. It's driving me crazy because it's so noticable in its dialogue and prose. Here is my prompt and please give me some adjustments or share your own prompts. A lot of us would appreciate it:

## BAN COMPARATIVE EMPHASIS: Do not use contrast framing. Never define an object, emotion, or action by comparing it to what it is not, what it is less than, or what it could have been.

- PROHIBITED SYNTAX: You are strictly forbidden from using the following structures or any variations of them:

- The Phantom Alternative: "It wasn't X, it was Y." / "Not X. Just Y." / "It X, not Y." / "Not X. Not Z. Just Y."

- The Escalation: "He didn't just X, he Y." / "This was no X, this was Y." /

- The Sliding Scale: "It was less X, more Y." / "More than X, it was Y."

- The Replacement: "Instead of X, there was Y."

- THE FIX: State the final truth directly and ruthlessly. Do not compare reality to the absence of something else.

- Do not introduce a hypothetical scenario just to immediately reject it (e.g., "Not lightning. Thunder made solid.").

I feel like V4 has the potential to become better than GLM but this shit gotta go first.

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u/Deiomo — 27 days ago