00:00:13 — 00:00:17 Welcome back to Magan, a local AI on a private USB drive.
00:00:17 — 00:00:21 Just be sure you have a compatible Windows PC system to run it.
00:00:21 — 00:00:26 We're going to demonstrate how personas work, and how you can make your own in this video.
00:00:26 — 00:00:32 First, it's important to understand that a persona is a character you create to define how you interact and communicate with it.
00:00:32 — 00:00:40 It includes aspects like personality traits, the tone of voice, and even preferences for using emojis or expressing "feelings."
00:00:40 — 00:00:48 This character helps shape how you engage with it, making interactions more consistent and aligned with the desired style.
00:00:50 — 00:00:58 When you load up, it will often open with the 'default' persona, which is this one right here.
00:00:59 — 00:01:06 And we have other personas, such as a business coach, or a documents persona
00:01:06 — 00:01:12 which is best used when you are referencing any documents you've uploaded in the 'Files' tab.
00:01:14 — 00:01:19 We always recommend when switching personas to just start a 'new chat' with them.
00:01:19 — 00:01:25 But you can indeed switch personas inside a chat. You just can't speak to both of them at the same time.
00:01:25 — 00:01:30 And, you know... it's AI. You may end up giving it multiple personality disorder. :)
00:01:30 — 00:01:35 For now, we're just going to show you how to make your own persona.
00:01:36 — 00:01:39 That starts here just by typing in your query.
00:01:43 — 00:01:49 I'm currently asking MAGAN to build a character who is obsessed with pancakes.
00:01:49 — 00:01:51 Let's see how that goes.
00:01:52 — 00:01:56 So there's a pause here and that tells me I did not pre-load the AI model.
00:01:56 — 00:02:03 That's just fine. It'll load for you, if you don't do that. It will, however, load at your predefined settings.
00:02:03 — 00:02:09 My predefined settings are a little less GPU and more context.
00:02:09 — 00:02:15 I don't really need more context right now. It does slow down the results a bit. Nevertheless, they're coming across just fine.
00:02:16 — 00:02:21 We'll go ahead and copy and paste those as soon as they're finished.
00:02:22 — 00:02:31 So now I am copying this piece of code, and I am going to open a notepad file.
00:02:31 — 00:02:45 This will allow me to paste the information here, and the important part is to "save as" - you want to save this as a "json" file.
00:02:45 — 00:02:52 You have to name it first. I'm using Pancake Pete dot json (pancake_pete.json)
00:02:52 — 00:02:55 Sometimes I like to add underscore "persona" (pancake_pete_persona.json).
00:02:55 — 00:02:58 Anyway, save it as "all files" - that way it saves the json extension properly.
00:02:58 — 00:03:01 Choose 'UTF-8'.
00:03:01 — 00:03:10 Then all we need to do is make sure that file gets saved or dropped in the 'Personas' folder.
00:03:11 — 00:03:21 Now here I am asking MAGAN to continue this exercise by describing this character to me as if it were a real person.
00:03:23 — 00:03:27 As you can see, MAGAN can get pretty descriptive.
00:03:27 — 00:03:37 And the same thing applies: we are going to copy this information, but this time we are going to paste it into the 'Images' tab.
00:03:37 — 00:03:39 We're going to create an image for it.
00:03:41 — 00:03:43 Go ahead and paste.
00:03:43 — 00:03:49 I'm going to keep all the settings the same, except I'm going to make it a little smaller than 1024x1024... don't need that much for this image.
00:03:49 — 00:03:51 And we'll just let it run.
00:03:57 — 00:04:06 Once we have our image, what we're going to do is go to our 'images' folder on the MAGAN drive.
00:04:06 — 00:04:09 This is where the images are stored.
00:04:09 — 00:04:16 I'm going to copy this image and I am going to paste it into the 'Personas' folder.
00:04:17 — 00:04:26 Naming the image is pretty easy. All you have to do is go to your persona json file, and you can copy the name.
00:04:26 — 00:04:34 Go back to the image and paste the persona name there. Make sure the names are *exactly* the same, the only thing different are the extensions.
00:04:35 — 00:04:44 Now with both files in the 'Personas' folder, you can go back into the chat and you can refresh it, and find your new persona there.
00:04:44 — 00:04:49 We'll go ahead and strike up a new chat with this persona...
00:04:51 — 00:04:53 ... and see what he has to say.
00:05:00 — 00:05:06 You can create all types of characters in MAGAN if you want. It's a playground in itself.
00:05:06 — 00:05:13 With Pancake Pete here, I think I'm going to just ask him questions related to his personality.
00:05:15 — 00:05:16 We'll see what comes up.
00:05:18 — 00:05:20 He's answering as expected.
00:05:20 — 00:05:25 Just for fun, I might even ask him for a recipe.
00:05:25 — 00:05:27 Let's see how that goes.
00:05:36 — 00:05:47 Even though Pete will certainly spit out a recipe, with anything -- especially in work -- always double-check your answers when you're using AI...
00:05:47 — 00:05:50 whether it's online or using MAGAN
00:05:50 — 00:05:54 But just for kicks, I might actually try this recipe out.
