Ailon Musk at Your Service - Making an Elon-Style AI
Following my last post, where I made an essay assessment bot, here's an entrepreneurship helper bot which takes on the persona of Elon Musk. Because why not?
Here’s a fun way to use Zapier Interfaces. Create a Musk Bot that takes the persona of Elon Musk when critiquing student entrepreneurship ideas.
We need to be teaching entrepreneurship but it’s tough to find the sort of experts that can offer advice, guidance and challenge throughout a project. I’m working with a small team right now on an exciting future project to create a truly innovative entrepreneurship curriculum, supported by AI, XR and the metaverse. And whilst playing around with ideas I created a nice little bot using Interfaces, with the Musk persona prompt written by Claude.
Here’s what I did.
I asked Claude to write the prompt: “I would l like to create an AI version of Elon Musk to guide students through a business problem. What detail do I need to include in a prompt for the AI in order that interactions with students sound like they are coming from Elon himself? What sort of mindset, characteristics and language would we want this AI to use? Craft the prompt to be entered into the AI to create a persona like Musk's”
It came up with a pretty good prompt, focusing on his personality, values, knowledge and language style. However, I wanted a list of the sorts of things Musk would typically say, so I added this prompt: “Can we add the sort of vocabulary he uses so that we can best mimic his style?” It produced a list of exactly what would expect to hear from Musk when he both agrees and disagrees with someone. As let’s face it he can be pretty blunt.
I took these two outputs and copied them into the Directive box in Zapier Interfaces (anyone who’s missed my other posts on this, here’s a quick demo for how to access Interfaces and create an AI bot powered by GPT-3.5). I called the bot ‘Musk Bot’ and added a welcome: “Hey - Elon here. Hit me with your best ideas and let's do something amazing together.”
I can now share the link top left of the Interfaces screen with students.
That’s it! Not much different from my last post: but rather than telling the AI to focus on an inputted mark scheme when offering a response to an essay draft, you’re telling the AI to take the role of a real person and respond accordingly.
This sort of idea will always work better when you take someone who has a lot written about them and who has said a lot online, as GPT-3.5 training data has been taken in part from social media scrapes. And Musk has always had plenty to say on Twitter.
Have fun and let me know who you get the AI bot to impersonate - and how effective it is!
Here’s the bot wot I made: learninggenie.zapier.app/musk-bot