I'm also about to graduate from community college with an associates welding degree but only having one real cert while a couple of my classmates passed both 3g and 4g kinda makes me worry about job opportunities.
My previous Reddit post for more details of this preset (I don't want to write everything again): Writer's Block 2 Electric Boogaloo
What is the point of Writer's Block? It's to enhance the prose of AI by copying popular authors and styles and to provide a solid narrative base while being relatively simple.
Disclaimer: This preset wasn't made with traditional RP in mind (a lot of the popular presets don't allow AI to speak or act for you, e.g., "no impersonation," only speak for {{char}} etc.). While I did put in a roleplaying mode and a conversational style for options, I'm not really interested in that.
Writer's Block leans into giving the AI full control of characters (including the {{user}}) with you acting as the director or giving instructions to a sentient persona. Having trouble roleplaying with your characters? Use this preset to overcome your "writer's block." And with the new mode in this update, I made it lean into the autonomy more.
Edit: Just realized chat history is turned off (I wanted to see the total tokens excluding the history) remember to turn that on sorry 😔 And turn on the preset regex if it's turned off. Also change the role of CoTs from user to system if using Deepseek V4 as it would not follow the CoT format in user role.
What's New in Writer's Block 3.1415/2:
New Technical Stuff (Boooring)
Recommended Models
The big western LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.) I am not sure how well the preset performs, but it should at least work well on Gemini since I used it to help me write the prompts.
I was surprised by the amount of support I got on here and on Discord. I am honestly very glad because I am just a complete casual, and I was just adding in stuff I like in this preset. I'll (maybe!) keep working on this preset if you give me any suggestions but no promises.
Also, I was high on an edible when I got GPTimage to make the poster. I kept it because I thought it was funny. Naked Gun reference 👍
My custom prompt made with Gemini does a decent job of removing slop like that for GLM but Deepseek is one hardheaded faka and it keeps outputing "Not X but Y." / "It X, not Y" etc. It's driving me crazy because it's so noticable in its dialogue and prose. Here is my prompt and please give me some adjustments or share your own prompts. A lot of us would appreciate it:
## BAN COMPARATIVE EMPHASIS: Do not use contrast framing. Never define an object, emotion, or action by comparing it to what it is not, what it is less than, or what it could have been.
- PROHIBITED SYNTAX: You are strictly forbidden from using the following structures or any variations of them:
- The Phantom Alternative: "It wasn't X, it was Y." / "Not X. Just Y." / "It X, not Y." / "Not X. Not Z. Just Y."
- The Escalation: "He didn't just X, he Y." / "This was no X, this was Y." /
- The Sliding Scale: "It was less X, more Y." / "More than X, it was Y."
- The Replacement: "Instead of X, there was Y."
- THE FIX: State the final truth directly and ruthlessly. Do not compare reality to the absence of something else.
- Do not introduce a hypothetical scenario just to immediately reject it (e.g., "Not lightning. Thunder made solid.").
I feel like V4 has the potential to become better than GLM but this shit gotta go first.