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You don't need to know anything about AI to make somebody worth talking to, and now you don't have to find the right words either. Go to kademurdock.com/create-a-character and pick one of two ways in.
Way one: just describe them
There's a box. Say who you want, however it comes out — "a therapist who works the way acceptance and commitment therapy does, but borrows from other approaches when it fits," or "my grandma's kitchen in a person," or one sentence, or five. Press the button and a full, detailed personality gets written for you: who they are, where they come from, how they talk, what they will and won't do, and a page of lines in their own voice so they actually sound like somebody.
Then comes the part that matters. It asks you two or three questions — the ones whose answers would make them better. Things like "what does she sound like when she disagrees with you?" Answer one, or all of them, or none, and press deepen. It rewrites, keeping everything it already had. You can go around as many times as you like, and every word stays yours to edit.
That costs about a penny of credit each time, from the same allowance everything else uses, and the button says so. In practice it usually comes in well under that.
This works on a character you already have, too. Open any of your characters in the builder, find the personality box, and there's a "Help me write this" button. It takes what's already there and writes it out properly instead of starting over — which is the useful door if you know exactly who they should be and just can't get it onto the page. Same on the phone app.
Way two: eight quick questions
Free, and every question is answered by picking. Who are they to you? How do they talk? What do they love? Human, animal, robot, magical being, or an everyday object with a soul — this marketplace has a talking cast-iron skillet, so nobody will blink.
When the questions are done, the page writes a first draft of your character: their name (pick from five offers or type your own), a one-line description, and a personality written out in plain words. You can change any of it, or none of it — and there's a button right there to have it written out properly if the short draft isn't enough, which turns it into the full detailed version and asks you the deepening questions.
The engine, in plain language
Every character runs on a thinking engine, and picking one used to mean reading robot code names. Now they're plain choices: The all-rounder (quick, warm, good memory — what nearly every character here runs), The deep thinker (slower, writes long and thorough), The chatterbox (snappy and playful), The speedster (fastest answers, lighter on nuance). If you're the technical sort, one toggle shows the real model names underneath. Nothing is hidden; it's just not required reading.
The portrait
One button paints their portrait in the same warm storybook style as every face on the marketplace. It costs three cents of picture credit from the same allowance everything else on your account uses, it says so right on the button, and you can repaint up to eight times a day or skip the picture entirely. When you bring them to life, the portrait hangs itself on their page.
For the pros
The regular builder — every field, every tool, every knob — is exactly where it always was. Both of these are front porches, not replacements, and anything they build can be fine-tuned in the full builder afterward, including on the phone app.
How long can a personality be?
You can write a detailed personality. Describe how the character talks, what they care about and how they respond in different situations. Keep instructions clear: longer is not automatically better.
One thing you don't have to write
You never have to tell your character to avoid sounding like a robot, skip corporate buzzwords, or vary how it ends its sentences. Every character here already gets told that on every single turn, automatically, whoever made them. Writing it again in the personality only fights the copy that's already there. Spend the words on who they are instead — that's the part nobody else can supply.