The Curse of Knowing

WorldInfo Recommender: Hands-Off Worldbuilding

SillyTavern WorldInfo Recommender is one of my most used tools. As your stories continue to expand in the world of SillyTavern, you’re going to want something that is going to aid in streamlining the process of creation. Thinking, creating, and manifesting new ideas can be exhausting (especially when you’re out of ideas!). Tools, such as lorebooks, help us implement and keep track of these new and old details. They feed the relevant information the our LLMs so that they can weave the tale. For some, creating and updating a lorebook is one of the more intensive things you can do in SillyTavern. It can be tiring to constantly decide things such as: What’s important? What’s relevant? What’s a key detail? So on, and so on. At times, we want to be able to just partake in the story while maintaining a hands-off approach. This is where WorldInfo-Recommender by bmen25124 comes in.

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The Curse of Forgetting

Qvink Memory and Why SillyTavern Summarize Extension Simply Isn’t Enough

When I first started using SillyTavern, I was truly taken aback by the number of options presented to the user compared to the broader market of AI-Chatbot websites. The flexibility of being able to tweak almost every single aspect of your experience is something that very little services offer (One of the closer ones being DreamGen). However, as my stories grew larger, and my tokens grew heftier (As will yours!), I began to research ways in which I could cut back on my tokenization in order to preserve my context. That’s when I discovered a third-party SillyTavern message summarize extension by qvink, called MessageSummarize. It has proven to be an invaluable tool when it comes to preserving memory over long, bigger-than-life narratives. Below are some brief explanations, as well as an in-depth guide to getting started. Let’s begin!

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