Creating Custom Personas with the Anam Lab

From the Anam Lab homepage, click “Create a persona from scratch” to start designing your persona.

Name and Description

Give your persona a name and description to help you easily identify it.

Personality

The persona’s personality is a short description of the persona’s character traits. A concise description of the persona’s personality will help the LLM understand how to respond quickly to user input.

System Prompt

The system prompt is the persona’s brain. It is the persona’s knowledge base and instructions for how to respond to user input. Try to clearly define the persona’s role and how it should respond to user input.

Filler Phrases

Filler phrases are short phrases that the persona can use to fill in gaps in the conversation. They are used to enhance the persona’s response times and make the conversation feel more natural. If you don’t want to use your own phrases, you can select “use default phrases” to import a set of phrases that are commonly used.

Persona Preset

The persona preset is the persona’s defines your persona’s appearance and voice. Select the preset from the list that best suits your brand.

Confirm

Once you’ve filled in all the fields, click “Create” to create your persona. To view your new persona click on it from the list of personas. You can chat with it right away by clicking the “Chat” button.

Using your custom persona

Once you’ve created your persona, you can use it in the same way as default personas, by using the Persona ID with the Anam SDK in your application. The persona ID is displayed in the “Additional Info” section on the persona’s details page.