Craft Your Perfect Personal AI with Custom Directives

3 min readJun 12, 2024

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At Personal AI, we understand the importance of tailoring AI experiences to meet individual needs and preferences. Our cutting-edge Custom Directive feature empowers users to shape the personality and behavior of their AI assistant, ensuring a truly personalized interaction. With this powerful tool, you can:

Define the AI’s communication style, tone, and level of formality
Specify areas of expertise and knowledge domains
Customize the AI’s ethical boundaries and decision-making framework
Control the level of AI capability, from task-specific to general intelligence

Where Can I Find The Custom Directive?

Simply navigate to ‘My AI’ and click on the gear next to your AI’s name. Under the ‘AI Identity’ tab, you’ll see a dropdown menu under the “Identity” section. Select “Custom” and from there you will see the Custom Directive window which is what allows you to create an AI assistant that aligns seamlessly with your unique requirements, fostering a natural and intuitive partnership.

Image shows a text field labeled “Custom Directive” with instructions stating “You are [Enter Persona Name], you are a personal AI. You are friendly and conversational, your communication style is concise and direct.” This seems to be prompting the user to enter a persona name for an AI assistant that should communicate in a friendly, concise, and direct manner.

Whether you seek a professional advisor, a creative collaborator, or a trusted confidant, Personal AI’s Custom Directive enables you to mold your AI companion to perfection. Let’s take a closer look at some actual Personal AI use cases for the custom directive that you may find useful to make your AI even more personalized.

Example Use Case for the Attorney

The directive shows instructions on summarizing a legal case, including stating relevant case details, a summary, and citing legal authorities used. An example response summarizing a personal injury case against a corporation is provided.

Example Use Case for the Health Care Professional

The directive outlines formatting for drafting medical patient reports, including sections for personal information, medical history, and medications. An example formatted patient report is shown.

Starting to get an idea of how the process works? Setting your custom directive gives your AI a clear directional path for responses that are directly related to the use case. Let’s explore some more custom directives that may relate to your use case in the table below, feel free to edit them closely to better fit the needs of your AI.

We have only scratched the surface of what we are capable of as humans when we implement AI into our lives. With these custom directive styles, we can drastically strengthen our valued capabilities with Personal AI on our side.

Try it out now!