“I started with soul.md… it’s a text file that almost all AIs have.”

Mike Gennady · Intelligent Machines (Audio) · 200 Donuts - How One Engineer Manages a Team of 24 AIs

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Uses a ‘soul.md’ text file as the initial persona prompt for every new AI agent

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