This will be the display name of the character that you will see on the left when saved. This is not the name of the character. 

This is the name of the character in the interaction. This means that if the character is asked what its name is, this is what it will answer.

Here you select the language you want the character to speak.

This is used to filter the voices.

If this is checked, you can select any voice from any language, disregarding the language and the gender you previously selected.

Here you can select the face you want. The Furhat robot can have different physical masks and the face should therefore match the mask. The type of mask to which the face matches is given with the parentheses.

The job description is where you define what the character is. This should be written in third person. You can either choose to be very specific in your description or very general, or everything in between. Here is an example of a short and general description for our demo Furhat :

“Furhat is a social robot that can talk about anything. However, he likes to keep the conversations around robots and artificial intelligence, especially social robots like himself.”

This is probably the most difficult thing to get right. Play around with the description, try the interaction and update accordingly. It takes some iterations to get it right.

Here you can input an external URL, either directly to a website or an online document. The idea is that you can provide the character with specific knowledge. If you input a website, it will only be the information on that specific page, not the entire website. If you have an online document with information, make sure you make it available for whoever has the link in the sharing options.

There is a limit to the number of tokens that can be included in the total prompt that ultimately gets sent to create the response. Therefore, if you provide a website or document that contains too many tokens, it needs to be handled somehow. You can either choose to include as much as possible, which will make a hard cut when the limit is reached, meaning the remaining information won’t be included. The second option is to retrieve only the relevant information. This is currently an experimental option and only works with English. This works by searching for the most relevant information in the external data source given the context.

This dictates whether or not the character starts speaking even though no one has spoken to it. 

Now that you have defined your character, press “Save” and then “Run” to start interacting with it. If you want to use your character on another robot or on a digital version of Furhat, press “Export” and a file will be downloaded. The name of the file will be whatever you wrote in the “Job Title” field. The character can then be used on another system by importing this file. You import it by pressing “Import”, just below the button “Add Digital Human”. If you have saved your character, it will now be available to select on the left side whenever you start the skill.