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Shape the AI friend's personality with voices, and retire one without touching past runs.

A voice is the personality of the AI friend in a conversation. It has a name, a manner and things it loves, but never a body, a hometown, a job or a past. A run picks among the active voices and keeps one voice per persona for the whole run.

Add a calmer, low-energy friend

Sam's pilot conversations feel a bit loud. Every built-in voice has an energy of 2 or more, and Sam wants a quiet friend who rarely uses exclamation marks.

  1. Step 1.

    Open Voices from the sidebar. Each card is one voice, with its dials, humour and enthusiasms. Click "New voice".

    The Voices page showing the voice cards, with the New voice button highlighted
  2. Step 2.

    Fill in "Name" with Moss, the name the user may call the assistant. Give it a "Key", a short lowercase slug like quiet, and a "Code" with the next free number, like v-06. The code appears in every thread key and export for this voice. Choose both carefully: the key and code lock once the voice has been used in a run.

    The New voice editor with Name, Key and Code filled in
  3. Step 3.

    Write the "Description": a few sentences on how this friend talks and what they notice. The model reads it as the voice brief for every assistant turn. Never give the voice a body, a hometown, a job or a past; the filters reject conversations where the assistant claims one. Add "Enthusiasms", one per line, and one sentence of "Humour".

    The Description, Enthusiasms and Humour fields filled in for Moss
  4. Step 4.

    Set "Warmth (1-5)" to 3 and "Energy (1-5)" to 1, which is calm and unhurried. Set "Exclamation budget" to 0.05. The model sees warmth and energy as text like "Warmth 3 out of 5". It never sees the budget: the filter checks it after generation and rejects a conversation where more than that share of the friend's turns contain "!".

    The Warmth, Energy and Exclamation budget fields set to 3, 1 and 0.05
  5. Step 5.

    Click "Save". The new card appears in the list as active, and runs launched from now on can pick it.

    The saved Moss card, active, reading warmth 3/5, energy 1/5, exclamations in at most 5% of turns

To see how Moss sounds before a full run, start a small pilot. See Runs.

Next storyRetire a voice without breaking past runs

Retire a voice without breaking past runs

Lee wants the "Juno" voice out of new runs, without changing any run that has already finished.

  1. Step 1.

    On Voices, click "Retire" on Juno's card. It takes effect as soon as you click, with no Save step. The card turns dashed and faded, its status reads "retired", and the button now reads "Reactivate".

    Juno's card after retiring: dashed border, retired status and a Reactivate button
  2. Step 2.

    If you change your mind, click "Reactivate" on the card to bring the voice back.

    The Reactivate button highlighted on Juno's card

Retiring never touches runs that already happened. Only runs launched after you retire a voice skip it, and their personas get another voice and a fresh thread. Conversations that already used a retired voice keep their thread keys, and the voice's key and code stay locked once it has been used in a run.

A run needs at least one active voice, so keep one active before you retire the rest. Retiring a built-in voice keeps its "built-in" tag. Editing a built-in voice's content clears the tag, and your edit then survives a re-seed.

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