Your third person character as a NPC

Well, what exactly do you want to do?

You can:
Create a new pawn with a SpringArm and a Camera and let this pawn follow your NPC
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And choose this Pawn as your DefaultPawn in the WorldSettings/GameMode

OR
Create a Springarm with a Camera inside the NPC blueprint and do this in the level blueprint (NPC must be in the level to do it like this):


For this you have to choose None as your DefaultPawn in the WorldSettings/GameMode