Personas¶
Engineering → Neural Net → Personas is who each AI is. Pick one along the top, each in its own color.
A persona is an Ollama model: its personality is the system prompt built into it with a Modelfile, sent word for word. Starfarer adds only a short context block after it (see Rules).
A persona's cards¶
| Card | What's in it |
|---|---|
| Who it is | name, color, its model and whether it's built (Build it / Rebuild), its post on the ship, the names it wakes to, whether it answers to its name alone |
| Voice | its voice (and a blend of two), speed; Hear it |
| Temperament | its baseline: energy, sarcasm, teasing, how often it says your name, language, creativity; its mood range |
| Lines | its quick lines: heads-up ("one sec"), what it says when someone calls the wrong AI, when Starbase is offline |
| Advanced | the rest |
Save persona when you're done.
The built-in four¶
Celestra, Nova, Lumina and the Computer are locked, so every household starts from the same baseline. Make my
own copy to change one. Their models (celestra-core, nova-core, lumina-core, computer-core) are built on
Starfarer's shared brain (starfarer-base), in the chat size this PC uses.
New personas¶
+ New persona makes another, from scratch or from the one that's open. Give it a model: an Ollama model of your own, or one built from a Modelfile.
The ship's default¶
Make ship's default: the persona for anyone who hasn't picked their own (and the one "Hey Ship" gets for them). First setup asks for it too. Guests always get the Computer and Cadets get Lumina, unless you change those in Crew.