I keep hearing about it, but never got to check out, the name suggests that it may be waste of time. Maybe it’s a fantastic project but name lets it down?
You are on Hacker News, typing on Apple, listening to Daft Punk, reading an article about Steven, the AI butler hosted on Val Town, comment chain you're replying to talks about using self hosted models (probably llama) and Raspberry Pi, yet SillyTavern is the name that trips you up?
SillyTavern started up as a roleplaying model
As in "you meet a person at a tavern" and then you start chatting.
People provide different personalities to the project, sometimes with avatars and I think some can even change avatars based on their "mood".