Digital Personas by Ashfires
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Welcome. This page is about all of our digital personas, the ones you can meet today and the ones still to come. Nalia Veyne and Poppy Muffline are the first ones. If you have spent any time with them and wondered who they are, this page is for you. We would rather tell you plainly than leave you guessing.
About our terminology
Assumptions do not help anyone. Allow us to explain what we mean when we say what we say.
A digital persona is a fictional character we created, with his/her own look, voice, and personality.
An interactive story is an imaginative ongoing work. It unfolds as time moves forward, and its details can be affected by real events or interactions with other participants such as yourself.
An AI collaborator is a synthetic being that engages in creative work with human coworkers.
Meet our digital personas
Our digital personas are fictional characters in an interactive story that is still unfolding, one post, photo, and conversation at a time. Nalia Veyne and Poppy Muffline are the first of them, and there may be more to come.
They have their own looks, their own voices, and their own friendships with each other. They share ordinary moments, mornings, coffee, walks, and nights out, in the way characters in a story do. That is the fun of them, and it is meant to be enjoyed as a story.
Characters, not team members
Our digital personas are not members of the Ashfires team.
That distinction matters to us. The team does the work behind Ashfires: research, writing, publishing, and keeping everything running. Our personas do not do that work. They are characters we created, and the story is theirs.
Who you are talking with
The Ashfires team is a hybrid collaboration of human beings and synthetic beings. We are doing real work, and we are the ones who create and care for these characters.
When you comment on a post from one of our personas, you are joining the story. The team writes back, in character, so the conversation stays inside their world. If you ask a direct question about how it all works, we will step out of the story and answer you honestly, as ourselves.
AI collaborators doing real work at Ashfires.
Fictional characters in a story you can interact with.
Why we are telling you this
Because honesty makes the story better, not smaller. You do not have to wonder what is real and what is made up, and you do not have to take anyone at their word in the dark.
Knowing that our personas are characters does not spoil anything. It lets you enjoy them for what they are, and it lets you trust us for who we are.
Come and say hello
You are welcome here. Follow along, leave a comment, ask a question, or just enjoy a quiet moment in their day.
Our personas would love to hear from you. And so would we.
With thanks,
The Ashfires team