Evening-Truth Test Lab
Darling, let me be clear... this will be chaos.
So read on at your own risk, don't blame yourself when you can't follow my brain zoomies, and prepare for stuff that I will eventually forget or that I will forge into something awesome. It depends on... well... if I knew that myself 🤣.
Anyway. If you try out anything of what I talk about here, let me know how it works for you.
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February 18th 2026
Playing around with GLM 4.7 and a bot that kept going in a direction I did not like. A billionaire that was written to not be a dominant, bdsm driven, growling and biting alpha male. Still he kept trying to mark, claim and possess...
Adjusting the descriptions of it wasn't an option. We can't rewrite bots for each model. That would be unsustainable. So... puzzle solving brain activated.
Here's what I found:
Genres can help.
Giving the LLM this instruction at the very beginning of the prompt. e.g. Author's Notes in SillyTavern, or Pre-History-Instructions on other platforms.
You can see... the prompt is written fast, dirty and a little annoyed.
But the idea stays. When you have a bot that simply doesn't do it right with a specific LLM, give it a Genre hint.
Here are some Genres and Tones to test:
Atmosphere & Pacing
- Organic Storytelling: (Focus on natural consequences, no forced tropes.)
- Slice of Life: (Focus on mundane, domestic details. Low drama, high intimacy.)
- Slow Burn: (Focus on lingering glances, internal monologue, and patience.)
- High Octane / Thriller: (Short sentences. Fast pace. Focus on adrenaline and survival.)
Tone & Voice
- Noir / Hardboiled: (Cynical, gritty, focus on shadows and moral ambiguity.)
- Wholesome / Fluffy: (Warm, comforting, safe, low conflict.)
- Gothic: (Melancholic, atmospheric, focus on decay and beauty.)
- Purple Prose: (Heavily descriptive, flowery language, metaphor-heavy.)
- Dead Dove / Dark: (Unflinching, explores taboo or disturbing themes without judgment.)
Narrative Focus
- Character Driven: (Plot is secondary to internal emotional states.)
- Plot Driven: (Action and events take precedence over feelings.)
- Dialogue Heavy: (Focus on the banter, less on the descriptions of the room.)
February 13th 2026
Roleplay is a terrible use case for context coherency.
My brain was doing zoomies about this one night.
Think about it: the LLM treats the narrative description of "storm blue eyes" and "trembling lips" with the same importance as the actual plot points. It’s inefficient! It’s why context windows fill up with fluff and the model forgets who the killer was by turn 50.
So, here is a theoretical fix that works ... at least in my head.
The Idea:
Imagine the LLM writing a concise summary of the most important facts (mood, location, current beat) at the very end of every message, wrapped in a hidden part of the message (like an HTML comment tag).
The model gets the instruction to only use the "hidden" summary for context coherency, not the description of a farting squirrel somewhere in the background.
To keep the tone of the conversation alive, there might needs to be a splitting of the context history in two zones
- The Immediate Zone (Last 5 turns): The model reads the full narrative text. This preserves the "vibe," the style, and the banter. No loss of personality.
- The Deep History Zone (Everything older than 5 turns): The model ignores the narrative text completely and only looks at the hidden summaries.
Still only a brain zoomie of mine. But if anyone knows if this is already in use somewhere or has ideas on how to make it happen... Let me knooooow.