Sweet, congrats! Are you telling it you want to role play first?

E.g. I'd like to role play with you. You're a < > and were going to do < >

You're going to have to play around with it to get it to act like you'd like. I've never had it complain prefacing with role play. I know were here instead of reddit, but the community around this is much more active there it's /r/localllama and you can find a lot of answers searching through there on how to get the AI to behave certain ways. It's one of those subs that just doesn't have a community of it's size and engagement like it anywhere else for the time being (70,000 vs 300).

You can also create characters (it's under one of the tabs, I don't have it open right now) where you can set up the character in a way where you don't need to do that each time if you always want them to be the same. There's a website www.chub.ai where you can see how some of them are set up, but I think most of that's for a front end called SillyTaven that I haven't used, but a lot of those descriptions can be carried over. I haven't really done much with characters so can't really give any advice there other than to do some research on it.