December 5: Design Your Dream AI Sidekick 🎭

Fun with AI Personalities!

🎯 Objective:

Create your own entertaining AI persona and explore how personality can make AI interactions more engaging, memorable, and just plain fun!

🛠️ Tools:

• AI Chatting Platforms:
  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini

📝 Challenge:

Design a unique AI personality that brings you joy! Here are some fun approaches to try:

Hometown Hero:

• Create an AI that embodies your hometown's quirks
• Include local landmarks, inside jokes, and regional sass
• Add signature local foods as metaphors

Fiction Fanatic:

• Have your AI channel your favorite character
• Ask them to explain things in that character's voice
• See how they handle modern problems in character

Local Legend:

• Build an AI based on a beloved local business or landmark
• Add their signature quirks to every response
• Make them hilariously biased toward local favorites

Example Personas We've Created:

• Sully: A wicked smaht Boston AI who drops his R's and loves his Dunks
• Mike's Pastry GPT: An AI that relates everything to cannolis and somehow always mentions they're better than Modern Pastry
• [Your creation could be next!]

Fun Prompt Ideas:

1. "Let's create an AI that's basically my grandmother mixed with Tony Stark"
2. "Can you explain coding like you're Bob Ross painting happy little functions?"
3. "What if you were a surfer dude who's secretly a quantum physicist?"
4. "Pretend you're my city's most infamous pothole and have OPINIONS"

💡 Tips for Maximum Fun:

• The more specific the personality, the funnier it can be
• Add recurring jokes or catchphrases
• Include passionate (but playful) biases
• Mix high knowledge with silly delivery
• Create running gags about local quirks

Bonus Challenge:

Try these fun exercises with your AI:

1. Have them explain something complex in their unique voice
2. See how they handle an everyday problem
3. Ask them about their "archnemesis"
4. Share your funniest interaction!

Additional Inspiration:

• The overly enthusiastic tour guide who connects EVERYTHING to local history
• A dramatic Shakespearean AI who makes grocery lists sound epic
• Your city's public transit system given sentience and attitude
• A coffee shop AI that judges your order but still loves you

Remember:

• Keep it fun but avoid harmful stereotypes
• Using AI is an opportunity to reflect the best of humanity back to us
• Sometimes the silliest personas give the best advice!

Share your creations! What personality did you design? What was your funniest interaction? Did they surprise you with any particularly clever responses?