I’ve recently been writing fiction and using an AI as a critic/editor to help me tighten things up (as I’m not a particularly skilled prose writer myself). Currently the two ways I’ve been trying are just writing text in a basic editor and then either saving files to add to a hosted LLM or copy pasting into a local one. Or using pycharm and AI integration plugins for it.
Neither is particularly satisfactory and I’m wondering if anyone knows of a good setup for this (preferably open source but not neccesary), integration with at least one of ollama or open-router would be needed.
Edit: Thanks for the recommendations everyone, lots of things for me to check out when I get the time!
Mikupad is incredible:
https://github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad
I think my favorite feature is the ‘logprobs’ mouseover, aka showing the propability of each token that’s generated. It’s like a built-in thesaurus, a great way to dial in sampling, and you can regenerate from that point.
Once you learn how instruct formatting works (and how it auto inserts tags), it’s easy to maintain some basic formatting yourself and question it about the story.
It’s also fast. It can handle 128K context without being too laggy.
I’d recommend the llama.cpp server or TabbyAPI as backends (depending on the model and your setup), though you can use whatever you wish.
I’d recommend exui as well, but seeing how exllamav2 is being depreciated, probably not the best idea to use anymore… But another strong recommendation is kobold.cpp (which can use external APIs if you want).
If you’re up for learning Emacs, it has several packages for integrating with Ollama, such as ellama. It has worked satisfactory for me.
I actually already use emacs, I just find configuring it a complete nightmare. Good to know its an option though
I installed the emacs ellama package, and I don’t think that it required any configuration to use, though I’m not at my computer to check.
I’m not sure if this is what you’re looking for, but for AI generated novels, we have Plot Bunni. That’s specifically made to draft, generate an outline and chapters and then the story. Organize ideas… It has a lot of rough edges though. I had some very limited success with it, and it’s not an editor. But it’s there and caters to storywriting.
I recently started with Zed. It works with ollama.
Too early for me to give more of an assessment than “it works”.
I’ll give it a try thanks.
In an ideal work what exactly would you want an AI integrated text editor to do? Depending on what you need to have happen in your workflow you can automate copy pasting and automatic output logging with python scripts and your engines api.
Editing and audiing stories isnt that much different from auditing codebases. It all boils down to the understanding and correct use of language to convey abstraction. I bet tweaking some agebic personalities and goals in vscode+roo could get you somewhere
Things like highlight sections, ask the llm to review something about it, include other files as context (worldbuilding, lore material backstory etc) and easily insert bits of the text back into the main body. As I said I’ve used pycharm with AI integration for doing this but then you’re using a code editor which doesnt really have features that would be nice for writing prose. I was wondering if there was anything off the shelf (or close to) that combined the two.
Have you by chance checked out kobold.cpp lite webUI? It allows some of what your asking for like RAG for worldbuilding, adding images for the llm to describe to add into the story, easy editing of input and output, lots of customization in settings. I have a public instance of kobold webui setup on my website and I’m cool with allowing fellow hobbyist using my compute to experiment with things. If your interested in trying it out to see if its more what youre looking for, feel free to send me a pm and I’ll send you the address and a api key/password.
I havent tried kobold. I have tried silly tavern, which I think is similar, but that wasnt really what I wanted as I dont want to use the LLM as a character but as an editor.
