Personas
A persona is a saved setup of the assistant: a prompt, sampling values, tool switches and starter prompts. Settings → Personas lists them. A persona has no model of its own: a chat with one persona runs on the model you selected last, a group conversation runs every persona on the model of its recipe.
| Field | Effect |
|---|---|
| Title, description, avatar | Shown on the persona card. |
| System prompt | How the assistant behaves. Type it, or link a markdown file. |
| Temperature, Top P, Max Tokens, Reasoning Effort | Sampling. Empty uses the value of the conversation. |
| Tools | Which tools the persona may call. |
| Starter prompts | Suggested first messages, shown on the welcome screen. |
Use a markdown file as the prompt#
On the Prompt tab, choose Use a markdown file… and pick a .md file. The editor shows its text and locks it. Choose Clear file to empty the editor and type a prompt again. You can link a file only on the computer that runs the app, not from a phone.
The app ignores a frontmatter block at the top of the file. It reads the file each time you start a conversation with the persona, so an edit of the file applies to the next conversation. In the conversation, the prompt shows as "From file" and you cannot edit it there. A conversation already running keeps the text it started with.
Use a persona#
The welcome screen of a new chat shows persona cards and recipe cards, recently used ones first. A persona card starts a chat with its settings on the model you used last. Its starter prompts appear under the composer.
Chat → Save Setup as Persona… turns the settings of the open chat into a new persona.
A persona can also be a member of a group conversation. The conversation keeps a copy of the persona as it was when it joined.
Starter personas#
The first setup gives you four personas: General Assistant, Senior Code Architect, Socratic Educator and Ultra-Concise Advisor. The wizard offers five more (Moderator, Devil's Advocate, Research Analyst, Product Strategist, Creative Writer). Edit or delete them as you like.