The Rabbit Hole (Clio)

This page contains community-researched content and aims to provide in-depth tips to improve your experience with the AI.

This is an expert guide. There will be much less hand-holding from now on. Terms and tools will not be explained if they were defined in the feature pages and Advanced Writing, so ''make sure you have fully read these two pages before continuing.

= The Rabbit Hole =

This is an amalgamation of general use tips for the Clio model. Consider this a vulgarization of advanced theorycrafting and less a "best practice" guide.

There are no best practices than the ones you are comfortable with.

Setting Up a Story
Many people tend to remark that a model "doesn't generate like they want to" and then present a very short prompt, or a lack of biases, or a lack of proper codification of the style they desire.

Before you start writing, ask yourself the following: Do I only want story text, or do I want to use additional "data" elements to support generation?

Separating Data and Story
As a rule of thumb, Data (i.e Text Injections such as the Lorebook, Memory and Author's Note) should mix with your story text as little as possible. Interference between "Data" text and "Story" text will lead to degraded story output.

The first element to consider is if you are using the Lorebook or not. This will decide how your Memory will look like.

If you are using lorebook entries, then the default insertion settings will put Memory below all Lorebook entries. In that case, your Memory should look like this:

If you are writing something that isn't prose, (such as a poem, or a stat block, etc), you can substitute the Dinkus (***) with a Short horizontal rule .

If you aren't using the lorebook, you can simply put the ATTG block in memory without a dinkus.

Stage Directions
Clio is smart enough to recognize punctual "Stage Directions" much more than Sigurd, Euterpe and Krake could in the past. Nonetheless, those should have a fixed position in the text, and it's better you do not use the Author's Note for them.

While you can do this any way you desire, a way that has been tested and works more or less reliably are Style Shift Directions. They are achieved by writing the following:

Add a linebreak afterwards, and the style should shift to the one specified. Keep in mind that this is an emergent feature: Not all styles might work, and some that were not trained for can work for some reason. Here are some that were suggested: