Ask HN: How do you prompt AI to talk to you?

4 points by jascination 64 days ago | 1 comment

Like many, I use Claude for therapy/personal related stuff. I have a project set up which has a personal history, as well as things I talk about with my therapist, schemas, things I believe in and value, stuff like that. In challenging moments where there are things I want to process, I do voice recordings and use this project to reflect/process feelings and thoughts.

In the project instructions, I tell it to not be sycophantic, to always talk to me with a grounding in science and evidence-based theory, and to hold me accountable and gently challenge me when needed.

I find this good, but sometimes I feel like its responses are a bit boilerplate and generic.

Curious how other, more techy people set up projects / etc to do similar sorts of things.

razingeden 64 days ago |

If it’s something I want to keep in my back pocket as a personality I can always return to:

I use sillytavern web interface to create assistants and confidante personas with locally installed ollama.

but it’ll work with openrouter and all the major apis.

iirc it just came with a couple of prompts for assistants , and I found one on Reddit that i tweaked. I can’t find the exact thread I wanted but here’s the first result I found discussing the same thing [0] pros and cons.

I’m mobile and don’t have remote access to exactly what prompts and personas I made for myself on that desktop. it’s just a 2060ti with I think 12gb. You don’t even need the video card if you’re plugging in a 3rd party API.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SillyTavernAI/comments/1mz2yg3/usin...

Then I do something totally different for (disclosed!) IRC and forum bots, but this is my go to for something I’m locally interacting with.