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EP 2  Season 1: Build Your Own Kai

How to set up your first AI assistant: the 5 settings that matter

Most people sign up, type one question and never open the settings. This episode goes through the five that change how your AI answers, on the free plans of Claude and ChatGPT: telling it who you are, the switch that decides whether your chats are used for training, memory, the switch Claude needs before it can load files like ours, and a project that becomes your AI's home base. Sam, a made-up test parent, names hers Juno. Then you install your first file: a setup check that walks you through the same five settings, one at a time.

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Setup check

Walks you through the five settings one at a time, then saves what you chose in a file called my-setup.md.

Download the Setup checkChatGPT version (text file)

kai-setup-check-v1.0.zip · 5 KB · for Claude · Step-by-step install on the kit page

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Chapters

  1. 0:00The result
  2. 0:41Tell it who you are
  3. 3:05Your privacy switch
  4. 4:20The better memory
  5. 6:00Install your first file

Times are from the final edit. Once the video is out, each one jumps straight to that moment.

What to type

The second one is the four preference lines from chapter 1. Swap in your own details. Menu names move now and then, so the kit page keeps the current clicks.

Tools used in this episode

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