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Simple, effective, universal presets for Silly Tavern role-playing purposes.

**What is included: CONTEXT TEMPLATE (STORY STRING) + INSTRUCT TEMPLATE + SETTINGS (SAMPLERS)**

**A) Sphiratrioth (Short)** - minimal narration - when you want to simulate a natural, human-like conversation with a bot. For those who do not like the "verbose" role-play.
***<<< conversation-like, ~ 150 tokens, around 2/3 dialogue against 1/3 narration >>>***

**B) Sphiratrioth (Balanced)** - balanced RP - when you want to experience a balanced role-play with responses around 1-2 paragraphs.
***<<< 1 short paragraph, ~ 250 tokens, around 50/50 balance in dialogues against narration >>>***

**C) Sphiratrioth (Story)** - AI becomes your Game Master (GM) - when you want those long, verbose paragraphs with rich narration & story-telling.
***<<< 1-3 paragraphs, ~ 350 tokens, around 2/3 narration against 1/3 dialogues >>>***

**How to use:**

Advanced Users: Load them up under a "capital A" tab (AI Response Formatting) of the Silly Tavern UI. Enjoy, modify, forget.
Beginner Users: Read further. Those templates should provide what you're looking for.

1. Find your LLM (model) native instruct template. Every fine-tune stands on a base model, which is usually specified by its creator in a manner of "We're presenting a fine-tune of Mistral Small" or "Nemo on steroids" etc. It may be confusing, it may be clear. Not my fault :-P However, you need to identify the base model of a fine-tune by reading its description page. Different templates may be used by creators (tuners) for training - and then - templates suggested on a fine-tune's page work better. However, creators often just choose the basic template of a model they're tuning - so make sure to check the model's description page or assume it's using the base model's template (template of the main model that a given tuner is tuning).
***<<< most typical templates: Mistral, ChatML, Alpaca, Metharme/Pygmalion >>>***/
2. Golden Rule: Match CONTEXT TEMPLATE (Story String) and INSTRUCT TEMPLATE with your model. For instance, when Mistral-Nemo fine-tune is using the Mistral Instruct Template (as specified by creator of a fine-tune) - pick up the "Sphiratrioth - Mistral [CONTEXT TEMPLATE]" file and "Sphiratrioth - Mistral [INSTRUCT TEMPLATE]" file. It's very easy. I keep my naming clear - both the file names and preset names inside of the Silly Tavern UI list when you load them up. They're always clear and distinguishable.
***<<< this rule may be broken when you become the advanced user. Then, you'll know what you're doing so you'll mix different context/instruct templates. For now - one ring... khem - one template to rule them all. Don't be the Amazon Saur-off. Be a true, Tolkien's Lord of the Templates.>>>***/
3. Download my presets.
4. Copy the [CONTEXT TEMPLATE] files to (...)\SillyTavern\data\default-user\context
5. Copy the [INSTRUCT TEMPLATE] files to (...)\SillyTavern\data\default-user\context
6. Copy the [SETTINGS] files to SillyTavern\data\default-user\TextGen Settings

*Context Template = Story String*
People often get confused with names.