I did this with GPT-4, not directives to assume any type of personality or role.: I think maybe my key was to just have a conversation such as I would have wit

I did this with GPT-4, not directives to assume any type of personality or role.: I think maybe my key was to just have a conversation such as I would have with a knowledgeable stranger willing to play along with and topic or tangent or whim I explored. Really, just that. I never, at all, explicitly told it anything about myself. When I tried to model another personality, I thought for a while about the personality attributes, and then the same sort of general conversation— such a person would have with the same knowledgeable stranger, without ever giving personal details. I’ll post an example soon. Sorry though, for privacy reasons I won’t share the actual chat, but (assuming I’m being honest ;) ) others should be able to reproduce something at least similar— I’ve done so for my own personality multiple times.