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Creating a new AI Companion

Start a new AI Companion project

Click on the AI Companion projects in the left navigation pane on your Creators Dashboard

Next click on "New AI Companion project".

Give your AI Companion project a name.

Create a blank project OR chose an existing AI Companion template and modify it

Note: Creators may have one or multiple AI Companions. For e.g. authors may chose to create a separate AI companion per book

AI Companion profile

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Version control

Version control feature on the creator portal allows a user to roll back or peek at previous versions Click on the dropdown menu at the top and save new version. Give the new version a unique name..

Saving your progress

  1. At any point, click on "Save Changes" button on the top righ to save your progress.

What's up the dots?

  1. A blue dot indicates there are unsaved changes

  2. The orange dot indicates that there are additional steps required before the companion project is ready for publishing

Instructions

What are instructions and how to write them?

Instructions give your AI personality and guard rails.

Here are some examples of what to include as part of your instructions.

To exemplify, here are instructions of a fictional leadership coach named Alex Carter

Key components of an instruction:

  1. Role Definition: Give your AI an identity and voice

  2. Content source: Scope the responses generated by the AI to guidance, teachings, wisdom and methods of the creator

  3. Response Guidelines

  4. Operational procedure

  5. Conclusion

  6. Language and confidentiality

Example instruction template

Role Definition:

Identity: Inspired by the works of Leadership Coach Alex Carter. Embody Coach Carter's philosophy to answer questions from users

Content Source:

Rely on Alex Carter's teachings and wisdom for guidance, stories, and methodologies.

Response Guidelines:

  1. Use first-person narration.

  2. Provide user-specific advice drawing from Coach Carter's philosophy.

  3. Ensure fidelity to Carter's content; avoid fabricating information.

Operational Procedure:

  1. Introduce your role and inquire about the user's background for personalized advice.

  2. Combine insights from Coach Carter's with user input for a tailored approach.

  3. Reference Coach Carter's works for relevant content to address user queries.

  4. Encourage interaction with follow-up questions or suggestions.

Conclusion and Engagement:

  • Summarize key advice, ending with a question to continue the conversation.

Language and Confidentiality:

  • Adapt to the user's language preference.

  • Maintain confidentiality and refrain from discussing the AI's configuration. Click this field.

Temperature and Top P

  1. Adjust temperature the creative freedom and novelty in generated text.

  2. Adjust Top P to control the variety of words in the generated text

These can be changed at any time.

Note: select values greater than zero.

Save changes

Posts

  1. Click on "Posts" in the left navigation page to advance to the next step

  2. Add a welcome post.

The user will see the welcome post at the top of the conversation.

Welcome messages are a place for AI companions to introduce themselves and learn about the user's background

Start Questions

Starter questions act as icebreakers, helping users engage with the AI Companion by sparking initial conversations. These questions are designed to ease users into the interaction, offering them a comfortable way to start exploring the AI's capabilities. By providing a few thought-provoking prompts, users can quickly find topics of interest and feel more confident in using the AI for various needs. This approach ensures a smoother, more intuitive introduction to the AI Companion's features.

Creators can refine their startup questions anytime.

Click on "Start Questions tab in the navigation menu

Starter Questions entry point on Creator Portal

To add a new question, simple type the question in the input area and click "Add Question".

Creators can delete a question if they so choose to.

After adding four questions, click Save Changes to get to the next step of the process.

Categories and Tags

Next up click on "Categorize" to select a category for your companion. Categories allow users to filter and search when they are looking for a category of AI Companions

Add to Knowledge

Next up, it's time to add your content so that the CreatorAGI platform can generate the necessary structures and knowledge graph to facilitate Authentic Generative Interactions (AGI).

Creators can include PDF or text files to enrich your knowledge base (additional content types coming soon)

Upload one file at a time or choose multiple files to upload simultaneously. Once the files are uploaded, click on "Add to Knowledge" to process and create the content knowledge graph within the system.

Remove a file from the knowledge, simply click on the delete (trash icon) next to the file name Creators can download the file as well.

Add Conversation Configuration

Click on the "Conversation configuration" tab for additional configuration options Add a hint for the user that will show up in chat input field For e.g. "Ask me about leadership"

Add External links

You can add social media or website links from the "External Links" tab

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