Now that you have a completed bot, there are still a few more things that you need to do before you call everything done.
Dictating how you written your character is one thing, but how will you know whether or not it'll work in practice without any testing? You don't want to release a character that you think you written well to say things completely OOC (out-of-character) for them and have people in your release complain about it. Save yourself the embarassment and yellings by testing your character first in SillyTavern, Ooba or Agnaistic.
Make sure however that you actually test your character using Pygmalion or Metharme models. More advanced models like LLaMA-2 or GPT-3.5/4 are able to salvage poorly written character cards, so it is necessary to test on Pygmalion/Metharme models to make sure that the basic fundamentals of your character still function on a smaller model. Think about users who do not have the means to run larger, advanced models (locally). Additionally, in order to release your character to #bot-sharing (or the NSFW bot channels) in the PygmalionAI Discord, you must show proof that your character works on either Pygmalion and/or Metharme models (barring those with bot creator roles). If your character card does not sound like the character you expect after multiple swipes and attempts, you may need to look back at your card and improve on it before you test again. Testing your creations is a important step in the bot creation process and it will serve you as a guarantee that your character sounds like the character you expect it to be not only to yourself but to the community as well.
Once you verified that your character works on Pygmalion and/or Metharme models, you are now ready to publish your character onto the PygmalionAI Discord Server. Firstly, take some screenshots of your interactions with your character (unless you have the bot creator role) and save them to your computer. Go to #bot-sharing (or the NSFW bot channels) and create a post. Make sure to title your post, the name of the character, the franchise that they come from (or say OC if it's a OC), and your name (so people can find your card easily) like this example: Seele [Honkai: Star Rail (H:SR)] (Bronya Rand).
Next you would want to describe your character in the message box below. For this, I recommend describing who the character is, and how they are, the scenario that the user will be in with your character, the greeting message itself, and the models you tested your character card on. Once you are done, upload your character card and JSON to catbox.moe or any third-party upload site like Google Drive and provide the links to them in the message box.
Do not directly upload your card to the post itself as Discord may break how your character card operates. Do not package your character card and JSON into a ZIP file as you may not submit ZIP files, either in
#bot-sharing,#nsfw-bots-tameand the#nsfw-bots-extremechannels.
You can also instead put a video, a different image or GIF of your character onto your post yet still link your character cards/JSON file in a post below or in the same message box, depending on how much you write to it.
Make sure to also use the tags in #bot-sharing (or the NSFW bot channels) effectively by listing out the tags that apply to your character. Once you are done, create the post then, go into your post and post screenshots of your bot working on Pygmalion and/or Metharme models (unless you are already a bot creator) and you're done! You released your first ever character! If there is any issues that your character has, a curator will contact you in your post and ask you to either fix it or suggest improvements to your character card.
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