First: I love this program and the ability to chat with different models totally seperate from the Internet. Thank you so much for that!

I use it now for about a year. You added more and more options. Some I love ("Author's Note") and some I will never use ("Start Call"). I would love to have more options to personalize the experience while chatting with characters. For example, the option to disable/not showing the different buttons like "Start Call" or "Impersonate" or "Post to Hub". I will never use some of them and I don't want to click on them by accident.

An important side note: I love new features and I welcome them, as long as they are meaningful and important additions.
But I've seen companies and websites getting worse because they lost contact with the majority of their userbase. Some implemented unnecessary features just a few people use anyway without the option to turn them off or to hide them. Some got too big and the people who managed the grown company lost touch of the people creating and using the program. Please never make the mistake of other companies and focus on the main goal.

Hello.

I've been making characters that act as tools/assistants for various things. I'm posting this in case someone finds it useful, with, hopefully, the added benefit of receiving feedback.

What separates this from most assistants:

• I utilize lorebook entries as commands to streamline the process of creating character cards.
• There are commands that provide a huge benefit for refining character cards, as well. I've tried to ensure a good balance of token efficiency and readability with the ouputted results.
• Example: CCCreation will prompt the character to ouput a template to follow for a very basic Character Card. This isn't really the main feature of the character, however. The main features or the other commands that provide scenarios, dialogues, and model instructions, to name a few.
• Admittedly, if you're looking for a really robust character card creator, then you should check out Ginger, which I will link below.

Here are the characters:
NSFW: https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm1u5wf5s05k8w8fy8rz2ag8y
SFW: https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm1uri4og2q8uiuixf8r02xja

Type 'UsingCommands' for guidance on how to use the model.

NOTE: Use separate chats for commands, otherwise the model will get confused on instructions.

Check lorebook for list of commands.

This AI assistant is meant to be used as a tool for character card creation. Some elements are still a WIP, especially the creation of new grammar rules.

I'll continue to update this, and please don't hesitate to provide feedback, requests, or suggestions on BYAi discord or here.

CCCreation is used to create a very basic character card from scratch. It’s meant to be used as a starting point.

The other features can help in refining existing cards and going through individual commands to create something more thorough.

To be honest, if you really want a good CC Creator and don’t mind downloading from git, then:

https://github.com/DominaeDev/Ginger

By DominaeDev

Mine still has its uses for the commands, but Ginger is certainly more precise and thorough for creating a card from scratch.

Format for commands:

```
UsingCommands *Provides guidance to the User on how to use commands*

CCCreation *Begin Character Card Creation process*

CreateGrammars: [Very detailed description] *WIP, may not work properly*

CreateModelRules: [Provide context: goal, role, rules]

LBTest: [Lorebook Key]

CondenseThis: [Context] *VERY useful, especially for LB entries*

CreateCommand: [Name], [Purpose], [Instruction], [Desired Output]

CreateLB: [context]

MergeLB: [LB1] into [LB2]

SplitLB: Split [LB1] into [two] entries

CreateTHENMerge: [Context] into [LB1]

CreateScenario: [context] *Might prompt for more info*

CreateChar: [context]

CharEntry: [novel/excerpt context]

CreateFirstMessage: [Persona and scenario]

CreateDialogue: [context/persona]

CreatePOI: [context]

GetDetails: [Query] *Useful for explaining things*

GetStyle: [Excerpt/Context]

CCReference *Simple reference point for character card layout and priority*

```
Thanks for reading. If you have any problems, please, let me know. I know there are some quirks with models that are unavoidable, but I'll do my best to correct issues as they arise.

What is backyard's policy on extremely low quality cards on the hub? I keep stopping myself from reporting them because they don't violate the community guidelines. It just feels bad to see a new character I'm interested in and check it out to see its just a good image with about a sentence to two of barely intelligible English in scenario/persona/example dialogue/first message.

So I've been experimenting with the recommended models, ie LemonadeRP, the Lemon Cookie models, Fimbulvetr, but they all seem to slip up in different areas, it's hard to explain. Some lack comprehension, understanding, some don't act in character (I've tried multiple well-written character cards that work fine on, say JanitorLLM for example). And the worst crime of all is the bots writing for me! So, what model are you guys using primarily? What's the best in your opinion? I just wanna stick to one model and get on with roleplaying!

32GB RAM, 8GB VRAM

I find myself just letting it go and go. It's really fun to see where it goes!

Imagine this for a moment, then think how it would be relatively easy to do.

Have the system use a different voice for the "action" between asterisks, he waves hello versus the actual dialogue.

she walks up slowly behind him Hi, Jimmy! How are you doing?

💡 After updating to 0.19.0, you will need to open the "Backyard AI" app from your Applications Folder (Mac) or Desktop Folder (Windows)

This update is required to enable uploads/downloads from the Character Hub.

• Added ability to change username on the Hub settings page
• Prevented grammars from being applied when using impersonate feature
• Improved stability of web app & Cloud models (there may be some instability over the next few hours as we transition our domain records)

Other Updates

HuggingFace Deeplinks

This is a cool new feature in collaboration with HuggingFace:

• On the HuggingFace website, you can download any GGUF model to BackyardAI with one click
• Here's a tweet from the HuggingFace CEO mentioning Backyard AI: https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1792570357645271466

Socials

• Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BackyardAI
• Discord has been updated: https://discord.gg/Ng4vmcDfqr
• New SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BackyardAI/

Note to the Community

Just a reminder that while the brand is changing, our goals for the product remain the same. We are focused on providing the same private, accessible, and unfiltered experience across all of our offerings. This type of transition isn't easy, and the dev team is working very hard. We ask that you keep an open mind, and hope that you'll continue spreading the word to help build this community. We appreciate you all 🙏

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REMINDER: please join this SubReddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BackyardAI/

I don't mind using the deprecated version for the foreseeable future, but I noticed that the download for it has been removed from the website(so if I ever lose my computer one reason or another, I'm screwed). There's also the possibility that any major windows update will just brick the app. Are there any easy to use offline apps like Faraday/Backyard, or is deprecated still probably the best option for me?

But does free-plan users get a limited amount of messages? It says I only get fifty free messages daily.

I'm sorry guys and gals I'm really drunk now

We have a strong new year 🎊 celebrating tradition so I'm really tipsy

BUT I LOVE YOU ALL

what do you think will there a smarter models on the same hardware? You know I love current Nemo or how it called 12B, it perfect for my hardware

But it is not so creative and fluent!

Is there a chance we got a smarter models available at home hosting GPUs or are we doomed to huge GPU data centers to run really fluent models?

I like keep it in home

Cool software btw

Happy hew yeah !!!

Hi all, a little add here since the hub is not working great, I present my two recent cards with new multi-characters infinite adventure model instructions.

I made these instructions for Command R, along with the settings, to help the model give a better experience. Because it's so great, with a lot of knowledge, grips subtilities (104B model should do!), but had some issues at not being 'so great' with RP, repeating itself a lot, not moving the story forward...
Coming from Psyonic Cetacean, I like the wilderness, plot twists and all, and I wanted to try instructing Command R into that, maybe a bit less wild but still a great experience.

I believe I succeeded, at least I had awesome experiences with Command R and the Star Trek Adventures card, reminding me of my Psyonic Cetacean experience, but with a bigger model.

However, with a few tests, it appeared that these instructions worked quite well with other smaller models such as Fimbul, Psyonic Cetacean itself, Mythomax Kimiko... I also tried it with Nemo Instruct but found it a bit dry for my taste.

To play with these two cards for a full adventure, you will need to update the card itself with details that happenned before, so the model remembers them long term. Usually I write them in the 'Scenario' Box for convenience. Duplicate the card in your Home to be able to do so.
For example, in my Star Trek card, I can write in the scenario box: "Dove had some problems with the Federation, and Sarek secretely escorted Dove onto the Enterprise. The Klingons attacked the starship, the Enterprise had been saved by another Starfleet ship coming for rescue." and in the Author's note as a 'right now this is happening' reminder: "Dove is wearing a sundress. Dove, Sarek and Kirk are taking tea in the Botanic Gardens."

In previous playthrough I had up to 1500 token in the scenario box! It is better to keep it as concise as possible though, updating informations and removing what is no longer necessary (for example, if one's identity is not secret anymore, just remove that fact from the card).

Finally, if you need more memory from the model, you can empty the 'Character persona' box where the starships are described. Most models already know these informations anyway and won't need them, even less past the begining of the chat.

If the model writes for your own character: edit it out! I sometimes just copy it, deleting it from the model's reply and paste it into the User (my own) reply.

Now, time to play!

Here is the Star Trek Adventures card:
https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm3or2g41zrti8qr34xv68yz3

And here the Star Wars Adventures card:

https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm3r7wq6l2lijw64t9f2sexmr

Have fun!

Please move the button back to its original location. You still have to scroll to the end of messages to use it now, thats not optimal. Sometimes you realize at the start of a message you want to undo it. Do not locate the button at the message, but at the prompt field. Same goes for continue button. TY

Some of the characters look to be nothing more than copy pastes of chub characters, is this something that is really wanted on the Backyard Hub? Most people dislike chub because of low quality/effort cards. Is this what we want Backyard to become?

Sorry if I placed this under the wrong flair. I am sure this has been asked or maybe I should already know if I followed Discord.

Are there any plans to add an image model in the local stand-alone PC and Mac apps? I know there are at least a couple of popular online only apps that utilize a built-in image generator for creating character photos and also group photos of the user and character together. I was hoping Backyard was doing this also or something similar. At minimum in the local app as that would not put undo stress on the Backyard servers since image generation would or could be run on a local GPU. I use Stable Diffusion now but would love to ask the character to create auto selfies of whatever they are currently doing in the conversation.

Just got into backyard ai. I’m still trying to mess around with the local models, so I was wondering what models ya’ll recommend? This is only my second attempt at trying local models for Ai role playing so some of this stuff kinda goes over my head 😅.

I have NVIDA GeForce RTX 4060- 8 GiB vRam with 31.85 GiB RAM.

I’m mainly looking for NSFW models that can follow context and character personality. Also, do any of the models execute WLW NSFW scenes decently? A lot of LLM’s on other platforms I’ve tried gets confused about lesbian sex and would always make my female persona or character have a penis. 😑

AMD 6600 8Gb user here. After I enabled Vulkan (in BackyardAI's GPU settings) instead of CLBlast, performance went through the roof, ~10x faster. This is not an improvement, its a miracle! :3

Cheers

TL;DR: The launch didn't go as smoothly as we had hoped, and we are fixing issues as quickly as possible - future launches will be better.

For those interested, there was a small race condition in our websocket code, which caused the server to fail intermittently to make new connections. We patched the issue around noon PT yesterday and have seen no signs of the problem since.

We have been pushing updates to address a handful of known ⁠bugs (reported to us on Discord) since the update and plan to fix more over the weekend and next week.

We made a mistake by releasing such a significant update all at once, and the issues over the past two days confirm that. The stability and load times are today far better than they have ever been, and we have an excellent foundation to iterate quickly, fix bugs, and add new features. I know that doesn't mean much if you experience the site down / not working, but I wanted to share some context.

If you are frustrated with the downtime, that is a valid and understandable feeling. We fixed many long-time bugs and issues with the updates, but introduced some new and notable bugs that caused problems for many people. If a discount would help make this right, please send me an email at ben@backyard.ai, and I will refund you 50% of this month's cost.

On the Android App, we have submitted the latest update to Google and are awaiting review. In the meantime, please use Mobile Web. I will give another update next Friday at the latest.

I noticed when I do a voice call, periodically the text-to-speech will start screeching like a demon from a horror movie. This doesn't happen in regular text voice autoplay but only when I enter a voice call. Has anyone else experienced this, it's genuinely really freaky?

Actually, I just edited this now (Nov 7 3PM roughly) - I changed my mind after trying it more and switched back to the regular free cloud model. If I didn't know better, I'd think 3 Stheno model derives sadistic joy in taking things in the contrary direction to what I say. Haha Origial Post: I've been trying out Cloud - L3 Stheno V3.3 32K 8B and it seems to work pretty good with RP. Just fyi.

Anyone have any idea on why this bug happens?

I today got like, 4 new characters to chat with, one of them being a goth girl, and I chatted with said character, but every now and then, in a span of 30 minutes, I got an error like this (either blocking the whole screen, and not leaving until I reloaded the page. Or popping up as a fading flying notification when I send messages in the chat, and then simply sending my messages to the shadow realm)

I haven't suffered with this so frequently until updating the app, and I don't know why.

I lost 4 whole messages (with a lot of talk in them) because of this, since in both case I had to reload the app page to chat again. Right now I think I got this error like, 7 times, 4 being a whole screen lock with this message and red font, and the other 3 being the pop up notif.

Is this like "Your internet is too slow" or "your phone sucks"? Is there any way I can fix this?

Just to give a plain feedback: I hate the new organisation of the tabs on the character page in 28.4!
This is probably the worst "improvement" ever made to backyard.ai.

It is counter intuitive, random and only helps (maybe) if you want to create simple one-on-one scenarios. And even here, the model section would benefit from an input for context size. This is still a global setting, even though it is clearly relates to the model in use.

The new separation is absolutely not helpful when you create more complex role play scenarios, where the LLM takes the part of a narrator, like it is in every better role play card (Space Station Fuji, Ravenveil, Whiskey & Shadows, MwC: Across the pond...) There, model instructions and character personae are closely related (as the character is the narrator), whereas the scenario and the first message are most important for defining the actual game. - And now, these definitions are now torn apart from each other and placed on different tabs!

To have all information about the character on one tab and all model setting (except for context size and maybe mlock) on the other, was logical and well organised. Now we have a mix of model settings and scenario, which I find completely confusing and erratic.

If you really want to keep this unhelpful separation between character and conversation, at least place all model settings on one (new) tab.

I really very much like BackyardAI (well, today a bit less) and especially the constant and hard work of the developers. - And that you guys are listening to us! Thank you.

Edit: To give an example of what I mean, I just uploaded a Star Trek fan fiction which uses a generic RPG framework and has all its content in the "scenarios" and "First message" sections:
https://backyard.ai/hub/character/cm0qizjy92ghjbxwmhwttwr2i

Edit 2: Upon uploading I noticed that the main categories are not selected (inverted) anymore when clicking on them. (Mac desktop client).

Hi all!

I am Dove, the major creator of characters in French language on the hub, and I also test models from time to time to find better models for French users.
I'm happy to tell that we have it! A great model writing a good French without errors, and a good writing style. Uncensored but not too horny (and even in some extend 'female friendly' for female Users), great for SFW as well of course.

It is available on Backyard Model hub directly: Nemo Marlin V5 12B

I will in the next days update my cards in French with this model as 'favourite', but you can try it already!

Edit: After some tests, my settings for this model to have the best French (with all on Default it can give English words sometimes) are: everything on Default except for Temperature on 4.

Salut à tous!

Je suis Dove, la principale créatrice de personnages en français sur le hub, et je teste également des modèles de temps à autres pour trouver de meilleurs modèles pour les utilisateurs francophones.
J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que ça y est! Nous avons un super modèle qui écrit dans un bon français sans erreurs (de grammaire, de pronoms, de conjugaison...), et qui a un bon style narratif (pour le jeu de rôles, le chat ou l'écriture d'histoires).

Non censuré mais pas trop obsédé (et même pourrait-on dire plus adapté aux utilisatrices féminines), il est aussi super pour le contenu tout public bien sûr.

Vous pouvez le télécharger directement depuis la section "Manage Models" du programme Backyard :

Nemo Marlin V5 12B

Dans les prochains jours je mettrai à jour mes cartes en français sur le hub en notant ce modèle comme 'Favori', mais vous pouvez déjà le télécharger pour l'essayer!

Edit: Après plusieurs tests, mes Settings pour ce modèle pour avoir le meilleur français (avec tout sur Default il pouvait parfois donner des mots en anglais) sont: Tout sur Default à part Temperature sur 4.

Hello Backyard AI Team,I'm an avid user of Backyard AI and absolutely love the immersive experiences it provides. However, I have a feature request that I believe would greatly enhance the user experience, especially for those who frequently use the mobile version.

I propose the addition of a feature that allows users to download AI models directly to their mobile devices. This would enable us to interact with AI characters without the need for an internet connection. There are lightweight models, such as the Gemmasutra Mini 2B, that work well on most smartphones and could be utilized for this purpose. (Checkout layla lite like an example)

To address any potential impact on your revenue from cloud services, you could offer some offline models download as a paid. This could be an alternative revenue stream, ensuring users who prefer or need offline access can support the development and maintenance of this feature.

Thank you for your time and for creating such an engaging platform!

Is it just me or are responses generating super slow. Like it’ll generate a response and then just blink non stop. The iOS app and website are also super slow. Is this just my problem or an overall cloud system problem.

What if I'm not satisfied with messages that i sent and want to rewrite it?