I hate the way AI talks back to me. Its so proper, so robotic, every response feels like a help article. I wanted something that actually knew who i am, my beliefs, my history, what shaped me, the positions i hold and why. Not a generic assistant that treats every question like it came from nobody. So i got to thinking, who better to talk to than myself? So i built it over a weekend. Heres what I did and how you can do it too. Step 1: Export your Reddit data Go to reddit.com and click your profile icon in the top right, then hit Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and youll see a section called “Data Request.” Click “Request Data Export” and Reddit will email you a download link within a few hours, sometimes longer depending on how much history you have. The zip file will contain your posts and comments going back to when you created your account. Mine was about 21,000 comments over two years. Once you have it, open the CSVs in excel or just upload them directly into Claude and ask it to help you make sense of the structure. The raw data is ugly but everything is there, the text of every comment, the subreddit it was posted in, the date, all of it. One thing worth knowing: you can go way deeper than just Reddit. I looked into Google Takeout while i was doing this and it was honestly a little scary how much data they have on you. If you want to go deeper Google Takeout is wild, i didnt realize how much data they actually have on you until i went through it. Search history, location history, YouTube, Gmail, its all there and its all exportable. I thought about pulling my SMS history too but that felt wrong, those conversations are with real people who didnt agree to any of this so i left it alone. Reddit was enough for me and honestly if youve been on here for years and actually say what you think in the comments, you probably have more to work with than you realize. Step 2: Build the personality document and this is where the real work is Dont just tell the AI “write like me.” That gives you nothing. You need an actual document, a living reference file the AI reads every single conversation. Mine is a markdown file sitting in a Claude Project so it loads automatically every time. Start by uploading your Reddit export and asking Claude to interview you. Literally tell it: “Read my comment history and ask me questions about anything it cant determine on its own.” Let it go deep. Mine asked about my beliefs, my family, my history, my faults, things that happened to me, why i hold the positions i hold. You answer honestly, including the uncomfortable stuff, and then after the session you tell it to compile everything into a structured document. Then you iterate. Every time it gets something wrong you correct it and add it to the doc. Two weeks in and its already a completely different document than what came out of that first session. Heres what the document actually needs to cover: Who you actually are. Not the resume version. The real version. Your beliefs, your politics and why you hold them, your actual faults, your history, the things that shaped you. An AI that only knows your best self sounds fake because you sound fake when youre performing your best self. Your actual positions on things. Not just “im conservative” or “im liberal.” The specific positions with the reasoning behind them. Mine has maybe 15 specific theological positions with the scriptural basis for each, because if the AI doesnt know why i believe what i believe it cant argue it like i would. Your life context. Family, relationships, the stuff that matters. Your context is constantly informing how you respond to things even when the topic isnt directly about your life. Your faults and struggles. This one people skip and its why their AI version sounds sanitized. Put in the real stuff. The AI needs to know the full person or it just sounds like your linkedin profile with apostrophes dropped. Step 3: Set up the Claude Project correctly Claude has a feature called Projects where you can upload files and write a persistent system prompt that loads every single conversation. Heres how mine is structured: The project files are the personality document and the Reddit exports. The personality doc is the source of truth for who you are. The Reddit exports are the raw data the AI can search when it needs to verify something or find a voice sample. The project instructions are where you govern behavior, not just describe personality. This is the part most people miss. Describing yourself isnt enough, you have to tell the AI how to behave. Mine has: Grammar rules shown as examples not descriptions. Side by side. Heres AI voice, heres my voice. Because “sound natural” is meaningless instruction. Showing it what natural actually looks like works. A banned vocabulary list. Words i never use. “Nuanced”, “crucial”, “delve”, “it’s worth noting”, “at the end of the day”, em dashes in any form. These are the fingerprints of AI output and if theyre in the response it failed. A self-check it runs before sending anything. Did i open with anything other than the actual point. Does any sentence sound like a help article. Is this longer than the thought actually requires. Does this sound like something a real person typed. The user preferences field in Claude is where you put the short version of who is talking and what you need. Think of it as the brief that loads on top of everything else. Step 4: Provide raw voice samples Pull 20 to 25 of your actual comments verbatim and paste them into the personality document labeled as ground truth. These matter more than anything you describe about yourself because they show the AI what the target sounds like instead of your description of what you think you sound like. Those are different things. I found patterns in my own comment history that surprised me, stuff i didnt know i had until i saw it all together. The whole setup took a weekend to build right. But the document is living, i update it when something significant happens or when i catch a pattern that isnt in there yet. The interview sessions with Claude are something i still do occasionally, it surfaces things about how i think that i wouldnt have written down on my own. Lets have a proof of concept. I didnt write this. AI me did. Every bit of direction i gave was just that, direction. The words, the structure, the voice, all of it came from what i built. Feel free to run it through your AI detector and see what comes back. submitted by /u/Riots42
Originally posted by u/Riots42 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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