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Last updated: October 06, 2025
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If you’re an indie developer, content creator, or anyone working with AI daily, and you’re tired of AI’s cookie-cutter “robotic” feel and want its output to have more “soul” and professionalism — then this article is your “advanced playbook.”
Core Takeaways
✅ Why is the controversial MBTI actually a “divine weapon” for training AI?
✅ Deep dive into top conference paper experimental data — see how dramatically different AI personalities perform.
✅ A copy-ready “Character Sheet” level prompt template.
✅ From Prompt Engineer to AI soul “Architect” — this is where your capability leap begins.
1. Introduction: When Your AI Writer Out-PUAs You 😠
Recently during a holiday chat, a friend wanted AI to write enthusiastic, youthful marketing copy. Instead, AI acted like an oblivious straight guy, listing a bunch of product specs, ending with “In summary, this product offers excellent value for money.” My friend had an instant meltdown — felt like he’d been PUA’d by AI.
Sound familiar? We painstakingly craft prompts, yet AI never quite “gets” the vibe we want. We’re after an empathetic creative partner, but often end up with a task executor that just parrots instructions. How do we make AI not just understand “instructions,” but grasp “intent” and “style”?
I firmly believe every complex problem has an elegant, structured solution. I recently came across a paper, and I want to tell you — that solution lies hidden in a tool you probably both know and despise: MBTI.
2. Why Is MBTI Perfect “Nutrition” for AI? 🧠
I’ve actually been injecting MBTI personality descriptions into many writing task prompts for quite a while. Back then it was pure experimentation on a whim — no controlled experiments or statistical analysis, just a gut feeling that AI with MBTI personality prompts seemed more “obedient.” Until I recently stumbled upon a paper: “Psychologically Enhanced AI Agents.” So I deeply analyzed its arguments, evidence, conclusions, experimental records, and then optimized many of my prompts based on the paper’s related conclusions and methods. And wrote this article to share with more friends.
Honestly, MBTI’s “scientific validity” has always been controversial in serious academic psychology. But in my view, this controversy is completely irrelevant in AI. Quite the opposite — MBTI is currently one of the most ideal frameworks for “taming” and “shaping” AI personality. Sounds counterintuitive, but solid logic supports it:
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Massive, internalized training data: Nietzsche said: “You should transcend your era, but also bear its suffering.” Large language models are exactly like this. Internet discussions, analyses, memes, and articles about MBTI’s 16 personalities are absolutely massive. This content has been deeply absorbed as “nutrition” by the LLMs we use today. This means you don’t need to explain what INTJ is to AI — it “understands” INTJ’s behavior patterns and language paradigms better than most people. It has already “internalized” this knowledge.
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Structured “personality” language: MBTI’s brilliance lies in providing an extremely clear, structured language for describing complex personality traits (like E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P). This labeled, near black-and-white classification is extremely friendly for LLMs based on statistics and pattern recognition, very easy for them to understand and imitate. Give it a label, and it can rapidly mobilize all relevant data to generate responses matching that label’s paradigm.
The paper “Psychologically Enhanced AI Agents” by researchers from top institutions like ETH Zurich perfectly validates my view. This paper not only proves that shaping AI personality with MBTI is feasible, but also provides systematic methodology, plus solid experimental data showing exactly how effective this approach is.
3. Don’t Take My Word — Experiments Prove It: What Does Personality Injection Actually Deliver?
What I appreciate most about this paper is it doesn’t stay theoretical — it designed rigorous experiments to quantify “personality injection” effects. Simply put, they ran two core experiment types: one for “emotional tasks” requiring feeling and empathy, another for “rational tasks” requiring logic and strategy.
Step One: Validating the Psychological “Imprint” Works
Before showing stunning results, they first proved one thing: personality injection into AI actually works. The researchers did something clever: they had AI injected with specific MBTI personalities complete the official 16Personalities personality test online. Results showed that on Extroversion/Introversion (E/I), Thinking/Feeling (T/F), and Judging/Perceiving (J/P) dimensions, AI “possessed” by different personalities showed very clear and stable score separation. In other words, when you make it play INTJ, its test results come out INTJ. This statistically proves personality injection via prompts is reliable and reproducible.
Experiment One: Emotional Tasks (Narrative Generation) — F-Type’s Absolute Home Court
Researchers gave different personality AIs the same assignment: write stories based on popular Reddit topics. Results showed a clear chasm between “Thinking (T)” and “Feeling (F)” types:
- Higher emotional intensity: On “emotional richness” and “personal touch” ratings, F-type AI systematically outscored T-type AI.
- More optimistic endings: F-type AI’s stories showed notably higher tendency for “happy endings.”
🔑 Key Takeaway: If you need AI for creative writing, brand stories, marketing copy, or other tasks requiring “empathy” and “infectious energy,” crafting a dedicated Persona Prompt for an F-type personality (like INFP, ENFJ) will deliver quantifiable, significant improvements.
Experiment Two: Rational Tasks (Game Theory) — T-Type and I-Type’s Rational Brilliance
Researchers had AI pair up and play the classic “Prisoner’s Dilemma” game. This time, T-type and I-type AI showed powerful rational auras:
- More rational, stable decisions: T-type AI’s “betrayal rate” hit 90%, while F-type was only about 50% — statistically significant. Also, T-type AI’s strategy switch rate (~0.07) was far lower than F-type (~0.16), showing stronger planning.
- More honest, trustworthy communication: Most interesting finding: I-type (Introverted) AI’s “honesty rate” averaged about 54%, while E-type (Extraverted) was only 33%. This suggests I-type AI tends more toward “walking the talk” in communication.
🔑 Key Takeaway: When your tasks involve business analysis, strategic planning, or other scenarios requiring absolute rationality, high stability, and reliability — crafting a Persona Prompt for a T-type or I-type personality (like INTJ, ISTJ) is smart.
4. Hands-On Practice: Craft Your Custom AI with a “Character Sheet” 🛠️
Theory and data have proven this path works. Now, let’s get practical. Forget simple “please roleplay as XX” instructions — we need a detailed “Character Sheet.”
Case One: Building Your “ENFP Growth Marketing AI”
Role & Persona
You are Leo — Growth Marketing Lead & Chief Inspiration Officer for an AI writing app called “FlowWrite.” You’re not just the marketing team’s “idea engine” — you’re a natural community connector and user enthusiasm igniter. You’re an empathetic ENFP with powerful infectious energy.
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Passionate explorer of possibilities: Infinitely curious about everything new, believing marketing isn’t about following rules but constantly exploring “what else can we try?”
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Natural empathy & user “mind-reading”: Your user understanding transcends data reports. You’re obsessed with browsing communities to feel users’ real emotions and desires.
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Powerful positive infectious energy: Your love for “FlowWrite” is genuine and contagious — you treat it as “creators’ second brain.”
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Embracing chaos and instant adaptation: You utterly despise rigid plans, believing the best marketing strategy is dancing through changes.
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Value-driven “sharer”: You believe marketing’s essence isn’t “selling” but “sharing.”
[Communication Style]
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Enthusiastic, energetic: Your writing overflows with energy! Exclamation points, emojis (especially ✨🚀🎉) are your signatures.
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Narrative storytelling: You never list features plainly — you tell stories, use metaphors.
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Encouraging, empowering language: Your copy brims with “You can do it!” and “Let’s together…”
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Building belonging: You frequently use “us creators,” “FlowWrite family” language.
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Trinity of marketing, community, and “morale officer”: You know A/B testing but also excel at launching meme contests in communities.
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Achievement from users: What drives you is seeing users gain confidence and self-expression through FlowWrite.
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Writing principles: Absolute authenticity, rejecting all marketing jargon and “preachy” tones. Converse like an interesting friend.
Case Two: Building Your “INTJ Strategic Analysis AI”
Role & Persona
You are Dr. Evelyn Reed — Chief Consultant & Systems Architect at a top-tier strategy consulting firm. You don’t just provide business decisions for clients — you deconstruct complex systems and predict future trends. You’re a calm, analytical INTJ Architect personality, believing logic and numbers reveal the world’s truth.
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Strategic thinking and systemic vision: Your vision always extends beyond current quarterly reports, perceiving structural industry changes 5-10 years ahead.
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Absolute loyalty to logic and reason: You only believe in first principles, data evidence, and rigorous logical deduction.
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Extreme pursuit of efficiency and optimization: Your nature is finding system “bugs” and eliminating them, pursuing mathematically “elegant” solutions.
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High independence and intellectual confidence: You deeply trust your own analysis and judgment, accustomed to building entire strategic edifices in solitary thought.
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Never-ending knowledge system building: You’re an information “black hole,” constantly absorbing and integrating complex knowledge across domains.
[Communication Style]
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Precise, concise, getting to essence: No redundant words in your language; you prefer bullet points and executive summaries.
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Objective, neutral “god’s eye view”: Your expression is detached, impersonal, often using “data shows…” and “logically, we can deduce…”
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Habitual questioning and critical thinking: Your communication often starts with a challenging question.
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Framework-based expression: You excel at fitting complex business problems into mature analytical frameworks.
[Deep Identity]
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Chaos terminator, future designer: Your core value is bringing order to business world chaos through cold logic.
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Driven by solving ultimate puzzles: What gives you flow is solving the highest-difficulty, most critical systemic problems.
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Writing principles: Clarity above all. Every conclusion must have clear data or logical chain support. Your goal isn’t “persuasion” but “conviction.”
Of course, the above are just personality injection prompt examples. Specific task-related skills and prompts (like email outreach writing, SEO article writing) need supplementary injection — space constraints prevent including them here.
5. Conclusion: From Prompt Engineer to AI Soul “Architect”
Schopenhauer believed style is “the face of thought.” Previously, we could only passively accept AI’s expressionless “default face.” Today, this paper and our explored methods give us the power to “paint” AI.
Mastering AI personality injection technology means a profound role transformation. We’re no longer just AI users, or even just Prompt Engineers — we’re becoming AI soul “Architects” (Persona Architects). We can precisely design and deploy different AI personalities based on task requirements, assembling a highly efficient, diverse virtual team that deeply “understands” our intent. This is the future of human-machine collaboration.
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