Sigurd v2 & v3: Community Research Archive - TravelingRobot/NAI_Community_Research GitHub Wiki
During the early days of NovelAI, me and others tried to pull together the key findings from people's research efforts in #community-research in the NAI discord. This archive contains findings from that chat on Sigurd v2 and v3 from 14/06/2021 to 04/07/2021.
For the most part this was done by working through the chat log, skimming the messages from the date of open beta (14/06), trying to summarize what looked like the key findings. These findings concern mostly Sigurd v2 and Sigurd v3, so it is unclear how valid those are for newer NAI models. Findings and observations for older NAI models do not necessarily carry over to newer ones. Also, these observations are not to be taken as gospel - confirming other people's observations from using NAI is hard and time-consuming! So treat most things in the archives as very tentative findings! In the few cases, where more extensive testing was done, and anecdotal observations held up, it is noted.
I think the most useful use of this archive should be to serve as inspiration for your own experimentation with newer models. Some stuff in there might work for all models, some of it might not, some of it might have been in mistake and was never true for any model. Either way, hopefully by trying things out with the newer models, we can all learn a bit more.
Findings for Sigurd v2
Lorebook Formats
Format Testing Results
Positioning Entries: The Scaffold
Author's Note
Director instructions to the AI
Generation Settings
Findings for Sigurd v3
Lorebook
Lorebook Formats
Various Tricks & Caveats
Symbols, Punctuation & Capitalization
Author's Note
Keywords for Author
Keywords for Tags
Keywords for Genre
Keyword Databases
Methods for the Prompt
Stage Instructions