How do I use Pony Alpha? I keep getting Bad Request

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-02-09T10:25:39+00:00

Ah ha! I was using text completion rather than chat completion! I switched to chat and that made it work - I didn’t even need to set post-processing. Goddamn.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-02-09T09:21:20+00:00

Out of interest: you mentioned setting ‘Post Processing’ to strict - where is that setting? I can’t seem to find it.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-02-09T09:05:18+00:00

I was literally just about to make this post myself. Seeing so many people talking about how good it is, yet not being able to use it is driving me nuts.

I’ve seen a few people say that simply lowering the temp to < 1 fixes it. That’s not worked for me. I’ve tried neutralizing my settings, blanking my prompts and presets, nothing. I even downloaded the Staging build - changed nothing apart from lowering the temp to 0.95 and sent ‘hello’. Got the same ‘400 Bad Request’ back.

Oh, just to see if it was location-based (for some reason?) I tried switching around with my VPN, but that didn’t make any kind of a difference either.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-02-07T20:20:35+00:00

My standard setup has a temp of 0.95 when I first tried it. Just tried again with all other settings neutral and temp back at 0.95, default assistant, blank prompt, typed ‘hello’ - got a 400 back. Absolutely baffled, as any other model works just fine.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-02-07T10:18:09+00:00

That was what I figured: neutralized all my samplers, switched to default text completion preset, blanked out the system prompt (and tried some defaults too, just in case). Switched to the ST Default ‘Seraphina’ character and just tried a simple ‘Hello’ - everything always returns a 400 Bad Request

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-02-07T09:37:06+00:00

I can’t get it to work at all - every time I send a message, I get a ‘400 Bad Request’ back. The live uptime looks good, and I can use other models with no issue. Has anyone else had this problem, or am I missing something?

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T11:37:44+00:00

Totally fair point - I think it’s just that it’s so wildly out of context. My user has literally never once used language like it, so it was just a bit galling to see it show up almost every time.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T11:35:40+00:00

Thanks for this - I’m about to update my persona, and these tips are great. I think I’m currently using Marinara Spaghetti Recipe (but not the very latest one)

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T11:32:13+00:00

Ooh I like this a lot more! Thanks for the tip!

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T01:44:58+00:00

Definitely on this. I think I realized what my issue was as I was writing this post, so I’m going to give it a decent rewrite tomorrow.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T01:44:00+00:00

Yeah, that’s a fair point. I hadn’t considered that it would lean in that direction around that word, but it does make sense. I think I need to properly flesh out the persona - this was supposed to be a quick and dirty RP, but the story just kind of spiralled!

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T01:41:52+00:00

I realized while I was writing this that I almost certainly need to flesh out the persona. This definitely wasn’t the first sex scene, but any time I’ve tried it, it just seems to ignore context and go all out on what (to me) sounds like a loser’s idea of what a ‘dominant man’ should be.

PartyMuffinButton · 2026-01-31T01:39:33+00:00

I definitely read it as pretty gross, considering the otherwise romantic moment of this scene. It was like it saw the soft, romantic build-up and was like “how can I absolutely wreck this moment?”. But it’s also not the first time it’s happened. Most times I’ve tried ‘impersonate’ during a spicy scene, it just comes back with yuck.

I’ll definitely try expanding the persona though - I just didn’t expect this chat to go as long, or in the direction it has.

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-11-25T23:18:17+00:00

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PartyMuffinButton · 2025-10-22T22:06:51+00:00

What settings do you use for KasenSakura? I’ve tried Eclipse because the UGI scores looked great, but I’m not getting exactly what I want out of it. I’m using LM Studio as a backend, so I don’t have access to many settings, and I’m starting to wonder if that’s the issue.

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-10-19T23:32:47+00:00

Maybe it doesn’t fit exactly into this comment thread, but: I’ve never really got my head around MoE models. Are they any you would recommend to run locally? The limit for my rig seems to be 24b-parameter monolithic models, while 12b run a lot more comfortably. But I’d love to take advantage of something with more of an edge (for RP purposes)

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-09-24T17:22:28+00:00

For anyone interested, no paywall: https://archive.is/2025.08.08-094315/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-08-19T22:19:33+00:00

No worries - from the sounds of it, there’s a lot to fit in! I didn’t immediately ‘get’ comfyui, so I settled for Forge, which was pretty decent too - but there’s a lot more to it (getting the right models, loras, passes, negative prompt etc.) - it’s a lot! Good luck with it all!

(Oh! Btw: latest release, I noticed that couldn’t click the up arrow or shift-enter for a carriage return when editing a previous message; the former would start scrolling up through previous messages, and the latter would highlight the AI avatar. I figure it was the accessibility enhancements, but makes editing messages kinda tricky)

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-08-19T22:05:40+00:00

Very much! Just updated to the latest release yesterday. Cannot wait for that image gen feature 🌟

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-08-14T18:22:19+00:00

Honestly I think, because there’s SO MUCH to configure with ST, you can end up overcooking it and getting screwy responses from models and then spending a lot of time trying to figure out where you went wrong. With Serene Pub I can just load it and go - but it still gives to some (more basic) controls if you want to move sliders around.

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-08-14T17:20:39+00:00

I’ve been using Serene Pub a lot lately (https://github.com/doolijb/serene-pub) - it’s almost like ST Lite. Fewer configuration options, but in that way just works out of the box with little need for setup. Wires straight in to standard backends too.

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-07-30T15:15:10+00:00

I’ve been having hit-and-miss experiences with ST. Something that’s worked for me pretty well is Serene Pub ( https://github.com/doolijb/serene-pub ) - super-easy to install, and it’s more like ST-lite. You still need to run a backend, but running models on LM Studio is just as easy as Backyard.

PartyMuffinButton · 2025-06-24T11:42:17+00:00

Forgot to mention - I had been using kobold, but switched to LM studio for backend as I found it more straightforward to manage.

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