Chatting

Most good conversations on anime.gf come from a few small habits: knowing when to send, when to continue, when to regenerate, and when to change your own setup instead of fighting the character. This guide covers the controls that matter most.

The Core Chat Loop

The main chat bar supports three everyday actions:

• Send when the input has text.
• Continue when the input is empty.
• Abort while the model is still generating.

On desktop:

• Press Enter to send.
• Press Shift + Enter for a new line.

If you only learn one thing early, learn the difference between Send, Continue, and Regenerate. Those three choices shape the feel of a conversation more than anything else in the chat bar.

The Sidepane Keeps the Conversation Organized

The left sidepane is where chat management lives.

It gives you:

• Recent chats.
• Chat search.
• Pinning for important recents.
• Quick switching between existing conversations.
• The current persona selector at the bottom when a chat is open.

On smaller screens, anime.gf collapses the sidepane after you select a chat so the conversation takes priority.

If you are trying to find the right-side chat panel, same-character chat history, or the settings gear flow, read Character Panel & History.

Personas Change Your Side of the Conversation

Personas are not character definitions. They are your side of the roleplay.

You can:

• Create personas in Settings -> Persona.
• Mark one as default.
• Switch the active persona for an existing chat from the sidepane footer.

Use personas when:

• You want the same identity carried across multiple chats.
• You want different tones or self-descriptions for different scenarios.
• You do not want to rewrite the same context into every opener.

If a chat feels wrong in a way that follows you from one character to another, there is a good chance the fix is your persona rather than the character.

For the full Settings tab breakdown, including Persona, Memory, Responses, A.I, and Cosmetics, read Chat Settings.

When to Regenerate, Edit, or Continue

anime.gf gives you more than one way to recover from a weak reply.

• Regenerate gives you a new candidate for a reply.
• Edit lets you rewrite earlier messages when the conversation drifted.
• Continue is useful when the current reply cut off too early.

The practical rule is simple:

• Use edit to fix history.
• Use regenerate to try another branch.
• Use continue to extend the current branch.

Suggestions Help When You Do Not Want to Start From Scratch

The lightbulb button in the chat bar opens suggested messages.

This is useful when:

• You want to keep momentum without typing much.
• You want a few plausible next moves before committing.
• You want to compare different conversation directions quickly.

Suggestions can be reopened from cache, regenerated, or inserted into the input for editing before you send them.

Out-of-Character Instructions Are for Small Corrections

The chat bar supports ooc: guidance.

Use it when you want to nudge the model without rewriting your whole message. Example:

ooc: make the reply more cautious and less flirty

This is best used for small steering corrections, not for replacing the character definition.

Placeholders Keep Reusable Prompts Flexible

anime.gf supports the placeholders below inside chat input helpers and related prompt surfaces:

• {{char}}
• {{user}}

They are useful when you want the wording to stay reusable instead of hardcoding names everywhere.

Model Selection

The chat bar includes a model selector button.

If you see it, use it as a conversation-level choice. Different models can change pacing, tone, and how literally the character follows your setup.

Memory Fragments

Long chats do not only rely on the visible thread. anime.gf also uses memory fragments to keep some conversation context around as the chat grows.

The practical version:

• fragments are auto-generated conversation summaries
• a new fragment appears after roughly 8000 tokens of new chat content
• active fragment memory is limited to a relatively small budget, so older material may be archived or condensed once the active fragment pool gets too large

If you open chat memory settings, you may also see tools for defragmenting or reviewing that memory. Use them when a long-running chat starts feeling muddy, repetitive, or overly burdened by old context.

When a Chat Feels Off

Try this order before you rewrite everything:

1. Switch personas if the issue is really about your side of the exchange.
2. Regenerate if the issue is local to one reply.
3. Edit the recent message if the conversation already drifted.
4. Use OOC guidance for a precise correction.
5. Revisit the character's greeting, lore, or examples if the problem is structural.

If something looks broken or you have a product suggestion after trying the basics, ask in the anime.gf Discord.