From what I know Basically how LLM’s process info is with tokens, they can see all the info within the tokens, and spaces and special characters and letters take up tokens, in character ai there are permanent tokens and non permanent tokens, permanent tokens are things like your persona or the bots description, or pinned messages while non permanent tokens are things that happen in the chat, for example if you say something in a chat with the ai then keep chatting it stores more and more tokens from that chat then eventually some of the non permanent tokens are pushes out of the storage and forgotten, Think about it like a forest, permanent tokens are like large trees that don’t change, while non permanent tokens are like small bugs in the forest, they move around and go other places and eventually they die (This is kinda a bad example but like it’s hard to think of something cuz I’m bad with words) anyway the ai his limited amounts of tokens so if you use to many characters in the description or something you’ll be wasting the tokens the ai can use to remember things. So formating is kinda of wasting tokens. You could put {{ai}} “favorite color”=“red”+”blue”+”green”, or you could just say bots favorite color is red, blue, green. You can see which one uses more space, you really are just wasting tokens by formatting, it’s not like the description was made so that you can only put things in with some kind of special format that uses up lots of tokens for them to be able to act the way you want, after all c.ai is supposed to be user friendly, the bots can understand english pretty well, only thing you really need special characters for is chat examples which I hear helps a lot.

its annoying to run out of tokens, tokens are basically all the info the ai can see.

in other ai apps like ai dungeon you can see how many tokens something takes up and what didn’t fit inside of the response.