You don’t need to run the LLM on the device. It supports 13 different protocols for both text completion and chat completion.
There’s also RisuAI which has some nicer features like better integration with function calling. Sillytavern is working on Function calling more but it’s not quite there yet.
The nice thing about Sillytavern is that it also has plugins for Alltalk for TTS and ComfyUi/A1111 for image generation directly from the roleplay interface.
It also has support for RAG through upload of documents and web scraping and a shitload of other features it would take awhile to list here.
This seems cool but also a gateway for RSI