Why These Prompts Are Different
I’ve been experimenting with personalized AI images, but instead of describing myself in the prompt, I tried something way more interesting: I told ChatGPT to use everything it already knows about me from our conversations and memory.
The results are so much more interesting than the usual generic “person with laptop, coffee, and hobbies” AI images.
One of my favorites was Inside My Brain. It turned different parts of my personality and life into literal rooms and departments, pulling in my work, hobbies, recurring rabbit holes, my dog, weirdly specific things we’ve talked about, and tiny Easter eggs I wasn’t expecting.
It felt less like asking AI to make a picture of me and more like asking:
“You’ve been talking to me for a long time. Show me the version of me you’ve constructed.”
So naturally, I went down a rabbit hole and made 30 prompts for this. 😂
Before You Start
These prompts work best when:
- You’ve used ChatGPT for a while.
- You have Memory enabled.
- You upload a reference photo first if you want the person in the image to actually look like you.
30 Prompts to Try
01. Inside My Brain
Create an elaborate illustrated cutaway called “Inside My Brain,” based on everything you know about me. Turn my personality, habits, interests, work, recurring obsessions, strengths, quirks, frustrations, humor, and everyday life into different rooms and departments. Fill it with highly specific labels, visual jokes, Easter eggs, and references that feel unmistakably like me.
02. My Personal Operating System
Create a fictional computer operating system based entirely on me. Turn my interests, habits, projects, relationships, skills, recurring problems, and personality traits into apps, folders, widgets, notifications, system processes, error messages, and menu items. Make every detail personalized from what you know about me.
03. Where’s Me?
Create an extremely detailed Where’s Waldo-style seek-and-find illustration based on my life. Build one huge scene containing places, people, pets, interests, hobbies, work references, running jokes, memorable situations, and tiny Easter eggs from things I’ve shared with you. Hide a recognizable version of me somewhere in the scene.
04. My Action Figure
Create me as a premium collectible action figure in retail packaging. Choose the outfit, accessories, title, tagline, special abilities, stats, warnings, and tiny package details based entirely on what you know about me. Prioritize specific personal references over generic stereotypes.
05. My Character Select Screen
Create a video-game character selection screen featuring different versions of me. Each playable character should represent a recognizable side of my personality or life. Give each one a name, outfit, props, stats, strengths, weaknesses, and special ability based on what you know about me.
06. My RPG Skill Tree
Turn everything you know about me into an elaborate RPG skill tree. Include serious strengths, weirdly specific abilities, personality traits, learned skills, recurring behaviors, hidden talents, questionable upgrades, side quests, and humorous debuffs.
07. My Legendary Trading Card
Create a holographic legendary trading card based on me. Invent my character class, stats, rarity, special attacks, passive abilities, weaknesses, flavor text, and visual symbols using specific things you know about my personality, work, interests, habits, and life.
08. My Museum
Create a grand museum devoted entirely to me. Each gallery should represent a different part of my life, personality, interests, accomplishments, obsessions, memorable stories, or recurring problems. Fill the exhibits with specific objects and Easter eggs that someone who knows me would recognize.
09. My Cabinet of Curiosities
Create an ornate cabinet of curiosities containing objects that symbolically represent me. Choose every object based on things you know about my history, personality, work, relationships, hobbies, tastes, habits, accomplishments, and strange little recurring themes.
10. My Personal Warning Label
Create a beautifully designed vintage warning poster for interacting with me. Include operating instructions, known behaviors, ideal conditions, strengths, quirks, failure modes, troubleshooting advice, and absurdly specific warnings based on what you know about me.
11. My Starter Pack
Create an unusually accurate “starter pack” image for me using objects, phrases, clothing, technology, food or drinks, hobbies, work tools, recurring situations, and tiny details from what you know about me. Avoid generic demographic stereotypes.
12. My Alignment Chart
Create a 3×3 alignment chart featuring nine different versions of me. Invent personalized categories that fit my actual personality rather than using standard lawful/chaotic labels. Make each version recognizable through specific behaviors, situations, outfits, expressions, and props.
13. My Achievement Badges
Create a collection of beautifully illustrated merit badges for achievements from my actual life. Mix legitimate accomplishments with funny hyper-specific achievements, recurring situations, survival badges, personality traits, and things I somehow became unusually good at.
14. My Life as a Board Game
Create a detailed board game based on my life. Invent spaces, shortcuts, penalties, bonus cards, characters, currencies, objectives, hazards, and ridiculous rules based on things you know about me.
15. My Life as a Video Game
Create a screenshot from a fictional video game based on my actual life. Decide the genre, environment, objective, HUD, inventory, quests, health meters, status effects, and achievements using what you know about me.
16. My Personal Tarot Card
Create an ornate tarot card representing me. Invent an original archetype title rather than using a traditional tarot card. Fill the symbolism with subtle references to my personality, strengths, contradictions, interests, history, and current chapter of life.
17. My Coat of Arms
Design an elaborate personal coat of arms for me. Choose the animals, objects, symbols, motto, supporters, crest, and decorative details based entirely on what you know about my personality, history, interests, work, values, and sense of humor.
18. My Brain as a Corporate Org Chart
Create a satirical organizational chart for my brain. Invent departments, executives, dysfunctional teams, overfunded divisions, neglected departments, rogue employees, committees, and internal conflicts based on my actual personality and behavior.
19. My Search History as Fine Art
Create a richly detailed artwork imagining what my search history would look like if it existed as a physical world. Use the interests, questions, rabbit holes, recurring problems, work topics, hobbies, and bizarre curiosities you know I tend to investigate.
20. My Life as a Prestige TV Series
Create cinematic key art for a prestige television series based on my life and personality. Invent the title, visual symbolism, setting, genre, tagline, and subtle Easter eggs from what you know about me. Make it look genuinely dramatic even if some references are ridiculous.
21. My Personal Movie Poster
Create a theatrical movie poster for the story of my life so far. Decide what genre my life actually resembles, then create the title, tagline, visual composition, supporting imagery, and tiny references based on what you know about me.
22. The Many Faces of Me
Create a 3×3 illustrated reaction sheet showing nine extremely recognizable versions of me. Base the expressions and situations on moods, phrases, reactions, habits, and scenarios you associate specifically with me.
23. My Natural-History Field Guide
Create a vintage naturalist field-guide page documenting me as though I were a fascinating species. Label recognizable behaviors, habitats, tools, rituals, communication patterns, strengths, warning signs, preferred environments, and unusual adaptations based on what you know about me.
24. My Conspiracy Board
Create an enormous detective corkboard representing how my mind connects information. Fill it with topics, screenshots, clues, questions, projects, interests, and recurring themes from things I’ve discussed with you. The joke is that it initially looks unhinged, but the connections ultimately make sense.
25. My Personal Iceberg
Create a detailed iceberg diagram about me. Put obvious traits and interests above the water, increasingly specific knowledge below it, and truly obscure lore, running jokes, forgotten rabbit holes, weird talents, and deep-cut references at the bottom.
26. My Life Dollhouse
Create a detailed dollhouse-style cutaway representing my life. Instead of simply recreating my home, make each room represent a different part of who I am. Populate every room with personalized objects, activities, memories, projects, people, pets, and Easter eggs.
27. The “This Should Take Five Minutes” Flowchart
Based on what you know about me, create a humorous illustrated flowchart showing what happens when I begin a task that should take five minutes. Escalate it through my actual tendencies, distractions, research habits, discoveries, optimizations, and side quests until it reaches an absurd but believable conclusion.
28. My Personal Periodic Table
Create a periodic table of me. Invent element symbols representing my interests, skills, people, places, habits, favorite things, recurring problems, personality traits, and personal lore. Organize them into meaningful categories.
29. My Personal Theme Park
Create an illustrated theme-park map based entirely on me. Turn my interests, personality traits, work, memories, hobbies, fears, favorite things, and recurring life situations into rides, restaurants, themed lands, attractions, gift shops, and suspiciously specific warning signs.
30. The Ultimate Me Poster
Create one extraordinarily dense illustrated poster that captures who I am based on everything you know about me. Include dozens of specific references and Easter eggs spanning my personality, history, relationships, work, interests, humor, tastes, habits, accomplishments, frustrations, and recurring stories. Make discovering all the references part of the experience.
Make Any Prompt More Personal
Add the following instruction to any of the prompts above. This is what seems to prevent the result from turning into generic AI personality art:
Do not ask me to tell you what to include. First use everything you already know about me from our conversations and memory. Favor surprising, specific details and deep-cut references over generic personality traits.
If the image includes you and you want it to actually resemble you, upload a reference photo and add:
Use my uploaded photo as the visual reference for me while preserving my recognizable facial features.
The Real Fun
The fun part isn’t really:
“AI, make a picture of me.”
It’s:
“You’ve been talking to me for months. Show me who you think I am.”
If anyone tries one of these, please post your result. I’m ridiculously curious about what bizarrely specific things everyone else’s ChatGPT decides belong in their brain.