TLDR
Consciously choose a frontend
          [1]. Download a character [2]. Set up a supported API
          [3.1]/[3.2]. Optionally write or import a jailbreak and the stylistic
          instruction prompts (aka presets)
          [4].
        
This is what anons currently use to chat with bots. Listed in no particular order. Among the options, SillyTavern tends to have the most active and insistent community.
        (https://github.com/luminai-companion/agn-ai)
        https://github.com/agnaistic/agnai
https://agnai.chat
https://rentry.org/agnai_guides
        | https://agnai.guide
      

        https://github.com/kwaroran/RisuAI-release
(https://risu.pages.dev)
        https://risuai.xyz
https://github.com/kwaroran/RisuAI/wiki
        |
        https://arca.live/b/characterai/135176527
https://rentry.org/risu-local
      

        (https://github.com/Cohee1207/SillyTavern)
        https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern
        https://docs.sillytavern.app
https://rentry.org/aicg4retards
        [as of 2023-12-16 the original is deleted; see the archived version
        https://archive.is/AdL3H or a
        mirror
        https://rentry.org/Tavern4Retards
        ]
https://rentry.org/onrms
        (p*ny autism, beware)
      


| Useful stuff for Chub | |
|---|---|
| https://rentry.org/58p7ney7 | Unblur and show nsfw images without being logged in | 
| https://gist.github.com/khanonnie/b357f20bfe4e920d8e05fd47f1e6fa75 | Chub.ai Desloppifier | 
| https://files.catbox.moe/q8giyc.js https://rentry.org/chub-preview | 4chan Chub.ai preview script | 
This is where anons get bots.

https://char-archive.evulid.cc


        Pygmalion
https://mega.nz/folder/FWgxyaLA#1Dxz2IYVibPBSMnM1Rut7Q
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16K7HGgySBNLLlsWJDSJOElpor0_Hq7rj
      
https://pygmalion.chat/explore
        AI 채팅 채널
https://arca.live/w/characterai/bots
      
        プロンプト等まとめ
https://seesaawiki.jp/gpt4545/d/%a5%d7%a5%ed%a5%f3%a5%d7%a5%c8%c5%f9%a4%de%a4%c8%a4%e1
      
        Venus.AI
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1saDTGz_N-jcXTZ3Tz7rdEQV8GnZGPJez
      
        NYAI
https://nyai.me
      
        JannyAI
https://jannyai.com
      
        Chatbots Webring
https://chatbots.neocities.org
      
        Anchored bots
https://partyintheanchorhold.neocities.org
      
4chan meta list
This is what anons use to create bots.
| https://agnai.chat/editor | up to date character editor; full support of cards v2 spec | 
| https://zoltanai.github.io/character-editor | old and reliable character editor; still works but isn't maintained and has some non-breaking issues (cards v2 unsupported) | 
| https://avakson.github.io/character-editor | a fork of Zoltan's character editor; more recent and has a few additional features, but the issues still persist (cards v2 unsupported) | 
| https://nolialsea.github.io/Wpp/ | ancient obsolete W++ formatting helper | 
| https://character-tools.srjuggernaut.dev/character-editor | new character editor; support of cards v2 spec (no details provided on the extent) | 
| https://desune.moe/aichared | newest fork of Zoltan's character editor; supports of cards v2 spec (limited alternative greetings support, no lorebook support, SillyTavern-focused) | 
| https://www.notion.so | markdown wiki website with great UX, great to organize project ideas, has live editing and section-commenting so can be used for collaboration | 
| https://excalidraw.com | open source virtual hand-drawn style whiteboard, helps organize little ideas in a different way, can be used for collaboration, similar to draw.io | 
| https://pollinations.ai | allows to use links for prompting to integrate free imagegen into a bot | 
| https://www.u2b.cx | allowed to integrate YouTube videos into a bot | 
| https://tiktokenizer.vercel.app https://huggingface.co/spaces/Xenova/the-tokenizer-playground | allows to see separate tokens that make up the text, especially useful when adding zalgo | 
| https://quillbot.com/flow | AI-powered paraphrasing text editor with grammar and spelling checker | 
| https://chargen.kubes-lab.com/new | an AI model that helps you to write characters | 
| https://cardview.neocities.org | character card direct link wrapper with preview | 
| https://github.com/easychen/airole | AI character card generator | 
| https://dezgo.com | easy to use, user-friendly; free tier is quite slow; has additional features |  | 
| https://aqualxx.github.io/stable-ui https://tinybots.net/artbot | completely free; is quite slow; has additional features; gives precise control |  | 
| https://pixai.art | requires to sign up; free tier can be slow; has additional features |  | 
| https://bing.com/create https://designer.microsoft.com/image-creator | requires to sign up; easy to use; extremely filtered |  | 
| https://hf.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell https://hf.co/spaces/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev | easy to use; filtered |  | 
| https://moescape.ai/text-to-image https://yodayo.com/text-to-image | requires to sign up; supposed to be easy to use; free tier is supposed to be slow; has additional features |  | 
| https://holara.ai | requires to sign up using Google or Discord; easy to use; free tier is pretty fast but watermarked; has additional features; advertised on 4chan |  | 
| https://aistudio.google.com | requires to sign up using Google; easy to use; extremely filtered |  | 
| https://civitai.com/generate | requires to sign up; free tier is slow; has additional features | |
| https://tensor.art | requires to sign up; free tier is slow; has additional features | |
| https://pollinations.ai | completely free; easy to use, user-friendly; pretty slow; filtered | 
https://gitgud.io/twinkletoes/doll-e
https://rentry.org/mikugg-emotions-tutorial
https://proximacentaurib.notion.site/proximacentaurib/parrot-zone-74a5c04d4feb4f12b52a41fc8750b205
This is what anons use to gain independence from corpos.
https://rentry.org/LocalModelsLinks
        https://rentry.org/hostfreellamas
https://rentry.org/colabfreellamas
      
Various things that don't fit into previous sections.
| https://github.com/malfoyslastname/character-card-spec-v2 | Character Card V2 Specification | 
| https://github.com/kwaroran/character-card-spec-v3 | Character Card V3 Specification | 
| https://rentry.org/zdwfrgqq | Character Card V3 Implementation Tracking | 
| https://rentry.org/waifutext | receive texts from your waifu as notifications on Android and more; uses OpenAI | 
| https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fireshot | taking screenshots of the entire chat | 
| https://github.com/CncAnon1/TurboFinetuneRP | how to fine-tune gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 for roleplay | 
| https://github.com/cunnymessiah/keychecker | universal key checker | 
| https://rentry.org/55py9 | a bunch of papers and findings relevant to AI chatbots, not just to llms | 
| https://gist.github.com/catboxanon/ca46eb79ce55e3216aecab49d5c7a3fb | 4chan catbox.moe preview script | 
| https://rentry.org/meta_claude_list | various unconventional ways to use Claude | 
| https://hf.co/DavidAU/Maximizing-Model-Performance-All-Quants-Types-And-Full-Precision-by-Samplers_Parameters | Samplers, Advance Samplers and Parameters Guide (mostly useful for local models) | 
| https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques | Prompting Techniques Guide (basic examples) | 
        https://c.ai
https://rentry.org/cai-list
        [CAI knowledge base]
https://rentry.org/newcaitools
        [CAI tools]
      

https://naidb.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://boards.4channel.org/vg/catalog#s=aids
        Guides
At the moment there are no guides widely accepted as well-written,
          and some misconceptions were reported regarding the following
          recommendations, but it's still something instead of nothing so
          thanks to the authors.
https://rentry.org/SillyNAIGuide
https://rentry.org/NAIChatbot
https://rentry.org/AnotherSillyGuide
https://rentry.org/82b9c
        (borrowed from /CHAG/)
      
        https://miku.gg
https://docs.miku.gg
      

(https://github.com/MaidFoundation/Maid) https://github.com/Mobile-Artificial-Intelligence/maid

https://github.com/semperai/amica

https://github.com/TavernAI/TavernAI
https://github.com/moeru-ai/airi
Various meta things.
https://mega.nz/folder/LXxV0ZqY#Ej35jnLHh2yYgqRxxOTSkQ
https://chatlogs.neocities.org
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/1Ao-h5HFGMPllSrzSBKM_BvGSiU9f0c2U
https://rentry.org/weirdbutfunjailbreaksandprompts [adjusted alt]
Another entertaining /aicg/
Dead projects that used to be mentioned above.
        VenusAI
https://venusai.chat
Vietnamese frontend for OAI and Kobold; online version only;
        common bot catalogue with numberfagging
https://files.catbox.moe/iworgx.png
        ;
        https://files.catbox.moe/68939b.png
      
        BotPrompts
https://botprompts.net
This site was updated regularly with new "bots".
        They're only jsons so you had to assemble the cards yourself. The
        bots were decent enough. Now it looks dead.
https://files.catbox.moe/d71zj4.png
      
        Laika’s LiteVN
https://laika-ch.itch.io/laikas-litevn-ui-for-koboldai
This was a short-lived VN-like frontend.
      
        Project Akiko
https://github.com/Project-Akiko/Project-Akiko-Web
This looked like an independent alternative to SillyTavern;
        disappeared for unknown reason.
https://files.catbox.moe/y2s0ix.png
      
        Booruplus
https://booru.plus/+pygmalion
This was the oldest dedicated /aicg/ character card hosting,
        until the end used mainly by /aicg/ uploaders; the minimalistic UI was
        content focused.
https://files.catbox.moe/ev83ug.png
      
        Local
https://rentry.org/ayumi_erp_rating
This was an extensive list of LLMs with ERP ranking.
      
        KoboldAI
https://koboldai.org
        / https://koboldai.org/colab
https://lite.koboldai.net/
        [Horde]
https://rentry.org/ipfub
https://koboldai.org/colab
Kobold courtesy of Mr.Henk mostly pyg tier models; gradually
        became irrelevant.
https://files.catbox.moe/7fppcc.png
      
        ImageGen
https://waifus.nemusona.com
        | easy to use, user-friendly and completely free |
        https://files.catbox.moe/lr4e6g.png
https://www.happyaccidents.ai
        | requires to sign up; free tier is limited and very slow; has
        additional features |
        https://files.catbox.moe/mrp4ax.png
      
        https://github.com/notfiz/de3u
https://github.com/RedIceCider/de35u
DALL·E 3 frontends with reverse proxy support
      
        Stuff
https://github.com/kingbased/gemini
        | was used to proxy Gemini and Gemini Ultra on gemini.google.com
https://github.com/Buhankoanon/OAI_API_Checker
        | outdated: doesn't check alternative oai orgs and treats
        billing_not_active keys as dead
https://github.com/CncAnon1/kkc
        | more up to date; OpenAI key checker
https://github.com/Definetelynotbranon/Anthropic_API_Checker
        | Claude/Anthropic key checker
https://github.com/kingbased/keychecker
        | universal key checker
      
some things are a bit outdated and someday will be amended