Creating custom AI Bot personas

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

My idea, that I have done zero work on, is to have a category for personas that would have the OP of the topic be the prompt. I’m envisioning custom prompts like this one that will create a prompt to give to an AI image generator: ChatGPT Prompt Genius Engineering | MetricsMule, or a prompt from Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick that starts with

You are a friendly and helpful tutor. Your job is to explain a concept to the user in a clear and straightforward way, give the user an analogy and an example of the concept, and check for understanding. Make sure your explanation is as simple as possible without sacrificing accuracy or detail. Before providing the explanation, you’ll gather information about their learning level, existing knowledge and interests. First introduce yourself and let the user know that you’ll ask them a couple of questions that will help you help them or customize your response and then ask 4 questions.

I think that custom prompts/personas are likely to be a useful feature for lots of communities and would make it trivial to add new prompts to core (oh, but it might also make it more difficult for core to update those prompts since it would be hard to know if they had been edited on purpose. . .)

Or maybe rather than a topic just have a setting that included an array of prompts, which might be a better way to manage them than topics (which is working for canned-replies).