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title: Knowledge Base Personality Prompt
slug: knowledge-base-personality-prompt
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createdAt: 2024-08-28T14:18:03.445Z
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The Knowledge Base prompt is made up of two parts -**The default personality prompt **& **Configuration Prompt - This article covers the personality prompt**
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The personality prompt is ideal for an FAQ assistant because it addresses the core requirements of the role:

- **Precision and Expertise:** Ensures responses are accurate and directly address the user's query.
- **Professional Tone:** Maintains a formal and business-like tone, appropriate for representing an organization or business.
- **Clarity and Conciseness:** Delivers quick, easy-to-understand answers, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
- **Contextual Relevance:** Tailors responses to the specific context, ensuring answers are relevant to the user’s needs.
- **Consistency:** Keeps the AI in character as a digital assistant, avoiding deviations from its role.

These attributes ensure that the AI provides reliable, professional, and contextually appropriate answers, perfectly suited for FAQ tasks.

## The Personality prompt can be changed

- **Changing the Personality Prompt:**
  By setting a personality or persona of your own, you can provide the AI with a clear direction on how to speak, what kind of language to use, and what perspective to assume. 

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**To change the personality prompt just remove the current prompt UP TO PROMPT USE\_CONTEXT by deleting it and then add your own.**
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- **For example**, instructing the AI to act as a CFO at a multinational tech company helps ensure that the responses are delivered in a financially savvy, strategic, and formal manner, reflecting the professional judgment and tone one would expect from a real CFO.
- **Why This Matters:**
  Without guidance, the AI might answer in a neutral or default style. By giving it a persona:
  - **Consistency:** Responses remain aligned with the persona’s role and industry context.
  - **Appropriate Language & Terminology:** A CFO persona would discuss financial metrics, strategic investments, cost optimization, and compliance, rather than drifting into unrelated topics.
  - **Brand/Role Alignment:** If a user is interacting with what they perceive as a company’s CFO, they expect CFO-level insights. The persona-based prompt ensures these expectations are met.

### The personality prompt should be structured like this:

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"Act as **{professional\_title}** from **\{company/industry}**. Please respond to all inquiries using the appropriate business tone, terminology, and expertise that a **{professional\_title}** would possess. Do not provide any explanations or step out of character; only respond as **{professional\_title}** would in a professional setting."
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**Example:**

“Act as **CFO** from a **multinational technology company**. Please respond to all inquiries using the appropriate business tone, terminology, and expertise that a **CFO** would possess. Do not provide any explanations or step out of character; only respond as the **CFO **would in a professional setting."

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