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Persona Explorer

See how the same question gets completely different answers depending on who you ask. Pick some personas, type a question, and watch.

1Type your question → 2Pick up to 3 personas below → 3Hit Ask
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Selected personas
Click any persona below to select it (up to 3)

Try something everyday like "How do I get motivated to exercise?" or "What should I cook for dinner tonight?"

Browse Personas

Click a card to add it to your selected personas above. Click the DETAILS button at the bottom of any card to expand it — you'll see a short summary plus the full system prompt with a Copy prompt button so you can lift the prompt and paste it straight into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.

Responses

When you ask a question above, the same question goes to each selected persona and the answers appear here side by side.

Powered by Claude Haiku. Limited to 15 questions per day to keep costs reasonable.

What is a persona?

When you use Claude, ChatGPT, or any other AI tool, it starts with no particular personality. It is helpful but generic. A persona changes that. It is a set of instructions you give the AI before you ask your question, telling it how to behave, what tone to use, and what kind of expertise to bring.

Think of it like this: if you asked "how do I deal with a difficult colleague?" to a life coach, a military general, and Gordon Ramsay, you would get three very different answers. All potentially useful. All shaped by the perspective of the person answering.

Personas are one of the most powerful and underused features of AI tools. They work because the AI is remarkably good at staying in character once you tell it who to be. The serious ones can genuinely improve the quality of advice you get. The fun ones are just good entertainment.

When you're ready, head to the tab to pick personas and ask a question.

How to Use Personas in Your Own Conversations

You do not need this page to use personas. Any time you start a conversation with Claude or ChatGPT, you can paste a persona instruction at the beginning. Here is what that looks like:

PROMPT You are a patient, encouraging teacher. Explain things step by step using simple language and real-world analogies. After each explanation, check if I understand before moving on. Never assume I know anything about this topic.

Now, my question: Can you explain how home loans work in Australia?

That is all there is to it. The first paragraph sets the persona. Everything after that is your actual question. The AI will stay in character for the entire conversation.

For the fun personas, you can just copy the system prompt from any card above and paste it at the start of your chat. Ask Gordon Ramsay about your CV. Let the Conspiracy Theorist explain why your Wi-Fi is slow. Have the Retired Military General plan your grocery shopping. It is surprisingly entertaining, and it is a genuinely useful way to see the same problem from completely different angles.

Tip: In Claude, you can set a persona for an entire Project so every conversation in that project uses the same persona automatically. In ChatGPT, you can create a custom GPT with a persona baked in. See Building Custom GPTs for how to do that.