diff --git a/modules/shared.py b/modules/shared.py
index 82acf3c0..6b0c6f06 100644
--- a/modules/shared.py
+++ b/modules/shared.py
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ processing_message = '*Is typing...*'
 # UI elements (buttons, sliders, HTML, etc)
 gradio = {}
 
+# For keeping the values of UI elements on page reload
+persistent_interface_state = {}
+
 # Generation input parameters
 input_params = []
 
diff --git a/modules/ui.py b/modules/ui.py
index 5db36b3e..0ddcc833 100644
--- a/modules/ui.py
+++ b/modules/ui.py
@@ -33,9 +33,10 @@ def list_model_elements():
 
 
 def list_interface_input_elements(chat=False):
-    elements = ['max_new_tokens', 'seed', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'top_k', 'typical_p', 'repetition_penalty', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'min_length', 'do_sample', 'penalty_alpha', 'num_beams', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'add_bos_token', 'ban_eos_token', 'truncation_length', 'custom_stopping_strings', 'skip_special_tokens']
+    elements = ['max_new_tokens', 'seed', 'temperature', 'top_p', 'top_k', 'typical_p', 'repetition_penalty', 'encoder_repetition_penalty', 'no_repeat_ngram_size', 'min_length', 'do_sample', 'penalty_alpha', 'num_beams', 'length_penalty', 'early_stopping', 'add_bos_token', 'ban_eos_token', 'truncation_length', 'custom_stopping_strings', 'skip_special_tokens', 'preset_menu']
     if chat:
-        elements += ['name1', 'name2', 'greeting', 'context', 'end_of_turn', 'chat_prompt_size', 'chat_generation_attempts', 'stop_at_newline', 'mode', 'instruction_template']
+        elements += ['name1', 'name2', 'greeting', 'context', 'end_of_turn', 'chat_prompt_size', 'chat_generation_attempts', 'stop_at_newline', 'mode', 'instruction_template', 'character_menu']
+
     elements += list_model_elements()
     return elements
 
@@ -44,11 +45,26 @@ def gather_interface_values(*args):
     output = {}
     for i, element in enumerate(shared.input_elements):
         output[element] = args[i]
+
+    shared.persistent_interface_state = output
     return output
 
 
-def apply_interface_values(state):
-    return [state[i] for i in list_interface_input_elements(chat=shared.is_chat())]
+def apply_interface_values(state, use_persistent=False):
+    if use_persistent:
+        state = shared.persistent_interface_state
+
+    elements = list_interface_input_elements(chat=shared.is_chat())
+    if len(state) == 0:
+        return [gr.update() for k in elements]  # Dummy, do nothing
+    else:
+        if use_persistent and 'mode' in state:
+            if state['mode'] == 'instruct':
+                return [state[k] if k not in ['character_menu'] else gr.update() for k in elements]
+            else:
+                return [state[k] if k not in ['instruction_template'] else gr.update() for k in elements]
+        else:
+            return [state[k] for k in elements]
 
 
 class ToolButton(gr.Button, gr.components.FormComponent):
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 573552ff..8308c9b8 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ import time
 import traceback
 import zipfile
 from datetime import datetime
+from functools import partial
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import psutil
@@ -846,6 +847,8 @@ def create_interface():
             shared.gradio['count_tokens'].click(count_tokens, shared.gradio['textbox'], shared.gradio['status'], show_progress=False)
             shared.gradio['interface'].load(None, None, None, _js=f"() => {{{ui.main_js}}}")
 
+        shared.gradio['interface'].load(partial(ui.apply_interface_values, {}, use_persistent=True), None, [shared.gradio[k] for k in ui.list_interface_input_elements(chat=shared.is_chat())], show_progress=False)
+
     # Launch the interface
     shared.gradio['interface'].queue()
     if shared.args.listen:
@@ -855,7 +858,6 @@ def create_interface():
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
-
     # Loading custom settings
     settings_file = None
     if shared.args.settings is not None and Path(shared.args.settings).exists():
@@ -900,9 +902,11 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
             print('The following models are available:\n')
             for i, model in enumerate(available_models):
                 print(f'{i+1}. {model}')
+
             print(f'\nWhich one do you want to load? 1-{len(available_models)}\n')
             i = int(input()) - 1
             print()
+
         shared.model_name = available_models[i]
 
     # If any model has been selected, load it