Potential candidate as a Silicon Maid successor.
I've been enjoying Silicon Maid for some time, but when I read Kunoichi was a merge attempting to improve what Silicon Maid was best at I decided to give it a try.
The difference between the normal Kunoichi and the DPO version is quite noticeable, I feel the normal version was quite stubborn following instructions compared to Silicon Maid, then noticed there was a DPO version, I've had good experiences with DPO models before and I was not wrong, I love how this model (if configured properly) is quite more verbose and creative compared to Silicon Maid, I do notice an improvement on this one but it required me to do a little fine tuning on my system prompts to get it working the way I wanted.
I notice Kunoichi DPO usually gives longer and mode creative responses without the need to regenerate replies or having to keep pressing continue to force longer replies like I sometimes had to deal with Silicon Maid, I will keep testing this model a few days and see If I feel satisfied enough to move away from Silicon Maid as my default.
There is a Kunoichi DPO V2 but I haven't tried that one since there is no 8bpw exl2 quant available yet that I know off, I saw it scores a little higher in the MT Bench but that's all I know about it...