This is the non-technical documentation for users. It teaches
Creating a character enables you to then interact with it using a language model.
Your character will feel more alive and unique if you provide a qualitative and extensive definition of the character.
Required Fields
To create a character, you can navigate to the character creation page.
There, you must provide a profile image, a character name, short description, and long description. These fields will now be explained.
Name and Short Description
A name is, obviously, the character's name. Full names are recommended. The short description is more a collection of keywords/adjectives,
so it is really tight. For Michael Jackson, a fitting short description would be Singer, Songwriter, Dancer.
The character name and short description influence your character's searchability, meaning these are the fields
that will be searched for what the user is looking for. To maximize potential interactions with your created character, you should therefore set the
character's full name. Additionally, the short description should specify adjectives and or keywords fitting for the character, including
the name of the game/series/movie/... the character is from, if applicable.
These points are exemplified by characters as Kingdom of Dumbria (Foreigner in a Foreign World)
(keyword Foreign World) and Mika: Blue Archive (Bubbly | Outgoing | Happy-Go-Lucky).
The name and short description is also provided to search engines like Google, meaning it affects how people beyond XeTute's search engine are able to search for your character. Note
that both the name and short description get searched, meaning specifying a keyword/name/... in both will not increase its discoverability.
Long Description
A long description defines the character. Depending on what kind of character you are creating, you should define different attributes.
If creating a single-person character, for example, you should specify common metadata like age, height, weight, eye- and hair color, and
elaborately describe biases, opinions, appearance (including common outfits), behaviour, personality, relationships, preferences, and history.
These are, of course, only examples, and you may adjust the description how you see fit. There are many things to be said even about boring individuals.
For RPGs (Roleplaying Games), also referred to as worlds, expected data changes, since you are not defining one single person now, but an environment
and people inside it (if applicable). Example fields include groups of people, popular groups/persons, local laws and traditions, and details/topics that
deviate from the real world.
Do NOT use meta-formatting commonly seen in social media (like [Name("Sophia")]), but use normal, natural
language. Since long descriptions easily get long (yeah), focus on coherence, avoid repetitions, and on writing anything down
you know or even speculate about the character.
All data that is not public is stored on your device. Characters are public, your chats with any character is private.
Your chats and your persona are stored in your browser's storage. When you send a message, private data is sent to our server
to process and generate a response. Only data needed to generate a new response is sent, meaning if you send a message to an
imaginary character named XYZ, only your chat with XYZ and your persona (if you set one) is sent to the server to generate a response.
After a response is sent, the server loses your private data you sent to the server (your chat and your persona). This data is
also not used to modify (train, update, improve) the used language model.
The obvious advantage of this method is exceptional privacy, because it does not even, you might have noticed, require you to sign up.
An unexpected consequence you might find is that your data is gone if you delete your browser, or your browser deletes this page's data.
You can ease this problem by downloading your data from the settings page.
Downloading (titled exporting) your data also allows you to import it to another browser, which gives you the ability to continue
chats you started on your phone on your laptop/desktop.