Author: Hutch

How to Write a System Prompt for AI Roleplay

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The Curse of Prompts

If you’ve spent time in SillyTavern, you’ve seen the system prompt field…*shivers*. The lazy either leave the default in place (guilty..), paste something they found on Reddit (uh..guilty?), or dump a wall of instructions in and hope for the best (GUILTY!)

Yes, I was indeed guilty of all three.

inb4 “Just download a preset, bro“, because I surely am.

But for the curious, the system prompt is the most impactful piece of text in your entire setup. It sits at the top of every context window, sets the behavior for your LLM, and directly shapes every response you’ll ever get from a character card. That means that, many times, a well-written character card will actually suffer from a crappy system prompt (or..it might be a crappy card too. In that case, you’re double f’d)

This guide is a little bit of my experience, breaks down what a system prompt does, how to structure one for AI roleplay purposes, what to stop doing immediately, and sprinkled in with a bit of Chemical X. Let’s get into it!

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GLM-4.7 Presets

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GLM-4.7 – Stab’s Directive Hierarchy for SillyTavern and GLM-4.7 / Gemini 3.0

Link to Github Here!

GLM-5 Presets

Out of all the GLM-4.7 presets I’ve used so far, this is my go-to. I’m a big fan. It’s well-structured, and naturally amplifies the way GLM’s reasoning works; which is based off chain-of-thought (reasoning step-by-step). The preset has several ‘tiered’ rules, that GLM-4.7 naturally follows. The output is more deliberate and consistent (think of it like a DM reviewing notes before a session). The tiers are comprised of:

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SillyTavern Lorebook Profiles Extension – LoreProfiles!

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Introducing LoreProfiles!

As I used SillyTavern more and more, it was a bit annoying to constantly switch between lorebooks. Every time I switched to whatever character I decided to interact with that day, I had to remember the specific lorebook(s) for the scenario I was trying to achieve, and then manually toggle them. This got old fast! Remembering 3-5 lorebooks for different aspects of a story for different characters or scenarios became a headache. I couldn’t find a Sillytavern lorebook profiles extension that fit this niche use case, either. SillyTavern Lorebook Extension – Scribe

The SillyTavern lorebook profiles extension (or LoreProfiles, for short) fixes that entirely. You create a profile, select the lorebooks for that profile, and save it. Therefore, a single click swaps your entire lorebook configuration instantly (to your global). So no more forgetting which lorebooks belonged to which character. And no more toggling 5 things on and 3 things off every time you switch scenarios.

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Z.AI GLM-5 To Be Made Available to Lite Users

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The Curse of… No, Wait! The Blessings are upon us!

On a day such as this, one could not have expected better news. Z.AI has announced that, over the next few weeks, GLM-5 should be made available to all lite users.

The email. Fresh and real. You can almost taste it.

I’m excited to experience the improvements GLM-5 has made over 4.7. The team at Z.AI has made note of the immense RP community behind their LLM, and have taken steps to cater to that community as well. Specifically, improvements on long-text consistency and complex character developments were noted. When I was reading some reddit posts on it, some users remarked how impressively natural the dialogue felt compared to GLM 4.7. SillyTavern Weekly: DeepSeek V4, Kimi

GLM-5 is a 744B MoE model, and creative writing is a noted improvement area over GLM-4.7. NC Bench scores GLM-5 at 83–88% on prose quality across fantasy, horror, literary fiction, and mystery scenarios, measuring things like avoiding passive voice, weak dialogue tags, and AI-isms. That’s a meaningful jump for immersive RP output. – Perplexity

I’m a big GLM fan, but I’m also a big saving money fan (as we all know, tokens cost money)! Z.AI’s Lite subscription is an incredible bang-for-your-buck, and is a great LLM for roleplaying purposes. It’s actually my go-to, and I’m still rocking GLM 4.7 daily. The announcement is a most joyous one, and I’ll be releasing content catered towards GLM-5 over the coming weeks as I get an opportunity to experiment further with the LLM. SillyTavern Weekly: GLM 5.2, DeepSeek

Z.AI GLM-5 lite users rejoice!

**Note: If you’re looking for a suitable preset to be used with GLM-5/4.7, look no further. Check out my article on Stab’s Directive Hierarchy for SillyTavern and GLM-4.7 / Gemini 3.0

SillyTavern WorldInfo Recommender Extension by bmen25124

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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. SillyTavern Message Summarize Extension: Qvink Memory

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SillyTavern Message Summarize Extension: Qvink Memory

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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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