How To Write a SillyTavern Character Card

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The Curse of Hollow

How To Write a SillyTavern Character Card (Or for any platform, really) That Actually Has Soul!

So if you’ve checked out my guide on how to write a system prompt (which if you haven’t, check it out here if you’re curious), then you might be wondering how to write a SillyTavern character card. If you haven’t written one before, I suggest you do! Writing your own character card with his/her own quirks and caveats is one of the most enjoyable things you can do in this space IMO. My first character cards were terrible. Straight copy and pasted from the Wiki page of whatever flavor-of-the-month anime I was into. I’d slap in 2-3 adjectives, and an equally terrible first message.

But that’s the Curse of Hollow. A character, a name, and a picture if you really tried. But no personality. Nobody’s home, Charlie. However, much like system prompts, the way you write and fill those fields can make a huge difference. It’s not so complex to call it prompt engineering (*tips fedora*), but knowing exactly how to structure it in order to achieve a desired result makes all the difference, and you’ll notice!

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SillyTavern Story Suggestions Extension – Choices!

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Introducing Choices!

Sometimes, you’re tapped out. It’s been a long day of work, a long day of chores, or a long day of nothing. Wouldn’t it be nice to just sit back and not have to think for once? SillyTavern Story Suggestions, or “Choices!” for short, is my love letter to address that issue (and before you say anything about the name, I’m not the most creative sort). It is a CYOA (choose-your-own-adventure) style extension that automatically generates one-click story suggestions for you. Instead of having to brainstorm and think of new ideas, the LLM thinks of them for you and your character acts out the option in a single click. So you no longer have to stop and think if you don’t want to. Now, you can let that sucker LLM do it for you while you sit back and… Consume. Create. Obsess.

Features

Now that the edginess is over, we can get to the more important details. Simply put, the purpose of this extension is to streamline the “What do I do now?” dilemma most hit at some point. Here’s some features, shamelessly taken directly from my github:

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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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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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