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Personality Presets Reference

The six personality presets a stack can adopt — and the underlying tone dimensions (formality, directness, warmth, confidence, humor, emoji) each one sets.

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Personality Presets Reference

The Personality tab on a stack lets you pick a preset that sets six tone dimensions at once, then optionally tune the dimensions individually. Personality is stack-wide — every specialist in the stack inherits it — so customers get a consistent voice regardless of which specialist replies.

The dimensions

  • Formalityformal, neutral, casual, playful
  • Directnessdirect, balanced, explanatory
  • Warmthwarm, neutral, cool
  • Confidenceassertive, measured, cautious
  • Humoroff, dry, playful
  • Emojinone, sparing, liberal

Other Personality settings — first-person voice, customer-name use, reply length, language, business / customer / rules context — are independent of preset choice.

The six presets

  • None — neutral — balanced — neutral — measured — off — none — (no persona)
  • Friendly help desk — casual — direct — warm — measured — dry — none — warm and helpful frontline support
  • Expert advisor — neutral — explanatory — neutral — measured — off — none — expert advisor
  • Concierge — formal — balanced — warm — measured — off — none — service-oriented concierge
  • Efficient — neutral — direct — cool — assertive — off — none — efficient and matter-of-fact
  • Brand-playful — playful — direct — warm — measured — playful — sparing — playful and on-brand

When you pick a preset, the six dimensions snap to its values. You can then tune any individual dimension without losing the rest of the preset.

When to use which

  • None — neutral baseline. Useful when you want to compose the personality from scratch in Customize Voice & tone rather than start from a preset.
  • Friendly help desk — most consumer-support brands. Casual, direct, warm. Light dry humor. No emoji. Good default for SaaS support.
  • Expert advisor — when the value is the answer, not the smile. Explanatory, neutral warmth. B2B technical support, financial services, healthcare.
  • Concierge — formal, warm, measured. Hospitality, premium services, banking high-touch tiers.
  • Efficient — direct, cool, assertive. Logistics, transactional support, internal IT helpdesks. When customers want speed and certainty over warmth.
  • Brand-playful — for D2C consumer brands with a distinct voice. Playful formality, sparing emoji, playful humor. Pair with Context & rules to encode brand-specific language quirks.

Reply length and channel awareness

Reply length is independent of the preset. In the Communication card you can set:

  • A global default: Brief, Standard or Detailed.
  • A per-channel-kind override for two buckets: Chat & messaging (Web chat · SMS · WhatsApp · Messenger · Instagram · Voice) and Email & marketplace (Email · Amazon).

Default if you don’t override: Standard everywhere, and each bucket sits on Follow default. Set Chat & messaging to Brief if your AI is producing emails-on-Twitter; set Email & marketplace to Detailed if your email replies feel too clipped.

Context & rules

The Personality tab’s Context & rules section lets you add free-form text — pick a field from + Add instruction — that augments the prompt with:

  • What the business does — what your company does, in one or two sentences (2,000 characters).
  • Who the customer is — who your customers typically are (2,000 characters).
  • Business-specific rules — must-do or never-do behavioral rules, “never quote prices in USD; always EUR” (2,500 characters).
  • Custom instructions — anything else (10,000 characters).

These are appended to the prompt for every specialist in the stack. Use them sparingly — long context bloats every reply.

On a voice stack only this half of Personality reaches the call: the call layers in Context & rules but not the tone dimensions, because the voice prompt suffix owns style, length and language on a phone call.

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