[I’m brand new to setting up local LLMs for RP, and when I tried to set one up recently, it took me days and days to find all the proper documentation to do so. There are a lot of tutorials out there kept up by lots of generous folks, but the information is spread out and I couldn’t find a single source of truth to get a good RP experience. I had to constantly cross-reference docs and tips and Reddit threats and Google searches until my brain hurt. Even when I got my bot working, it took a ton of other tweaks to actually get the RP to not be repetitive or get stuck saying the same thing over and over. So, in the interest of giving back to all the other people who have posted helpful stuff, I’m compiling the sort of Reddit guide I wanted a few days ago. These are just the steps I took,…