In the project instructions, I tell it to not be sycophantic, to always talk to me with a grounding in science and evidence-based theory, and to hold me accountable and gently challenge me when needed.
I find this good, but sometimes I feel like its responses are a bit boilerplate and generic.
Curious how other, more techy people set up projects / etc to do similar sorts of things.
razingeden•1h ago
I use sillytavern web interface to create assistants and confidante personas with locally installed ollama.
but it’ll work with openrouter and all the major apis.
iirc it just came with a couple of prompts for assistants , and I found one on Reddit that i tweaked. I can’t find the exact thread I wanted but here’s the first result I found discussing the same thing [0] pros and cons.
I’m mobile and don’t have remote access to exactly what prompts and personas I made for myself on that desktop. it’s just a 2060ti with I think 12gb. You don’t even need the video card if you’re plugging in a 3rd party API.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SillyTavernAI/comments/1mz2yg3/usin...
Then I do something totally different for (disclosed!) IRC and forum bots, but this is my go to for something I’m locally interacting with.