The meta list of various bot making guides

(Updated 2024-12-17)

	Published	Last edited	Words	Reading time
https://rentry.org/botmaking_tips A very short guide explaining the basics of card fields for people who have no idea where to start. Valid for any OAI/Claude model.	10 Apr 2023 No.92685910	31 May 2023 10:33 UTC	510	3 min.
https://rentry.org/MothsBotMakingStuff "In-depth botmaking guide focused on optimizing and pushing the limits of Turbo, much of the info is applicable to other platforms."	21 Apr 2023 No.92943746	22 Apr 2023 11:04 UTC	9844	54 min.
https://rentry.org/oaicards "A little explanation with an example on how Silly reads a card, and some general tips on prompting AI."	23 Apr 2023 No.92969512	03 Oct 2023 19:07 UTC	7892	42 min.
https://rentry.org/TGCsCreativityGuide "A short guide detailing the different kinds of creativity present in a bot and how to implement and improve them"	30 May 2023 No.93773423	-	1683	9 min.
https://rentry.org/letsmakeabot "A step-by-step process for beginners on how you could start making bots."	31 May 2023 No.93782077	27 Jun 2023 11:23 UTC	2792	16 min.
https://rentry.org/SillyT_Lorebook "A how-to on Lorebooks. What they are, how to use them, with examples."	12 Jun 2023 No.94033910	22 Jan 2024 01:31 UTC	2101	12 min.
https://rentry.org/NG_CharCard "Pointers for Creating Character Cards for Silly Tavern and other frontends"	12 Jul 2023 No.94641345	22 Jan 2024 01:31 UTC	3904	22 min.
https://rentry.org/AdvancedCardWritingTricks "Can be considered an up-to-date guide on nearly every modern technique."	21 Oct 2023 No.96826991	26 Jan 2024 18:35 UTC	6416	37 min.
https://rentry.org/yabg "possible connections between prompt engineering and botmaking"	05 Apr 2024 No.99855975	26 Sep 2024 16:30 UTC	21794	117 min.
https://rentry.org/pixiguide "How to stop slopping, chapter one"	06 Sep 2024 No.493375384	06 Sep 2024 16:54 UTC	4856	26 min.

Supplementary reading materials

	Published
https://justpaste.it/9ofj1 "List of Author's Note Phrases"	18 Dec 2020 No.317723268
https://rentry.org/myclaudecantbethiscute "how to make claude work for CGDCT style moeblob characters"	18 May 2023 No.93515988
https://rentry.org/TURBOSHIT "some quick shitty rentry about some turbo stuff I learned"	27 May 2023 No.93700208
https://rentry.org/turbo_ft "a small write-up guide on fine-tuning Turbo with some scripts to make the process easier and example cringe 'dataset'"	25 Aug 2023 No.95604296
https://rentry.org/lobstersgpt "a few tips and tricks I gathered from my experience with GPT4"	27 Aug 2023 No.95637004
https://rentry.org/ClaudeWorldbooks "Method for quickly creating world books via Claude.ai or the API"	07 Sep 2023 No.95850671
https://rentry.org/tomoyocard "Visual novel in a card."	29 Nov 2023 No.97598390
https://rentry.org/MakingA4chanSimCard "Make your own 4chan sim"	28 Dec 2023 No.98137431
https://rentry.org/vcewo CoT guide, apparently stolen from /chag/	08 Jan 2024 No.98319263
https://rentry.org/MistralMedium "Random, unsorted notes about Mistral-Medium"	12 Jan 2024 No.98414454
https://rentry.org/stscript "dummy friendly guide on everything STscript"	23 Jan 2024 No.98612868
https://rentry.org/slopmaking-advice "Slopmaking advice"	14 Apr 2024 No.473580983
~~https://rentry.org/large-qr Mistral Large 2 recommendations~~	~~01 Aug 2024 No.488528831~~
https://rentry.org/gemini-qr Gemini recommendations	02 Aug 2024 No.488750142
https://rentry.org/how2claude "How 2 Claude"	17 Aug 2024 No.101936584
https://rentry.org/large-qr-revised Mistral Large 2 recommendations	19 Sep 2024 No.495134172
https://rentry.org/pay-the-piper-less Prompt caching guide	18 Nov 2024 No.502720682
https://rentry.org/prompt-caching-for-st "how to optimize prompt caching"	15 Dec 2024 No.103532365
https://rentry.org/common_botmaking_mistakes "common botmaking mistakes"	17 Dec 2024 No.506492359
https://rentry.org/deepseek-qr Deepseek recommendations	27 Dec 2024 No.507793936
https://rentry.org/marinaraspaghetti "How to make Gemini good for RP/ERP"	31 Dec 2024 No.103715570
https://rentry.org/CopiumDSv3STscripts Deepseek CoT with STscript	12 Jan 2025 No.103872968
https://rentry.org/gemini_filters "Gemini 2.5 Pro Thinking, all about filters and more"	11 Apr 2025 No.105020426
https://rentry.org/inline-expressions "alternate way of doing expressions"	01 May 2025 No.522456717
https://rentry.org/LLMAdventurersGuide Adventuring guide	03 May 2025 No.105154221

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Sister rentries:

https://rentry.org/aicgOP - /aicg/ OP templates for ease of baking (managed by other anons)
https://rentry.org/aicg_extra_information - /aicg/ OP overflow, additional info missing from the OP
https://rentry.org/meta_bot_list - meta list of various bot lists from different boards
https://rentry.org/meta_golocal_list - /aicg/ (and stolen /lmg/) guides on setting up current gen of local models

Email for feedback and suggestions:

aicg2023@proton.me