u/Icy_Quality_1641

I’m building Ashley 🌹👻 an AI desktop companion with memory, voice, personality, an avatar, and optional PC actions like opening apps or helping control the desktop.

Some users want to customize her personality/prompt, and I really want to add that.

My worry is that Ashley’s prompt also controls important behavior: tool calls, action formatting, memory, safety, and when she should or should not touch the PC. 😢

If I let users edit too much, they might accidentally break the action system because if users give her a personality that encourages the LLM not to follow actions, then Ashley would no longer be able to execute her actions properly. 😋

For people building agents or tool-using LLM apps:

How would you solve this problem?

I want users to make Ashley feel more personal, but I also need to protect the parts of the prompt that make her actions, memory, and tool calls work reliably.

What kind of architecture would you use for this?

I’d love advice. I want users to make Ashley feel personal without making her unreliable ❤️

I’m building Ashley 🌹👻 an AI desktop companion with memory, voice, personality, an avatar, and optional PC actions like opening apps or helping control the desktop.

Some users want to customize her personality/prompt, and I really want to add that.

My worry is that Ashley’s prompt also controls important behavior: tool calls, action formatting, memory, safety, and when she should or should not touch the PC. 😢

If I let users edit too much, they might accidentally break the action system because if users give her a personality that encourages the LLM not to follow actions, then Ashley would no longer be able to execute her actions properly. 😋

For people building agents or tool-using LLM apps:

How would you solve this problem?

I want users to make Ashley feel more personal, but I also need to protect the parts of the prompt that make her actions, memory, and tool calls work reliably.

What kind of architecture would you use for this?

I’d love advice. I want users to make Ashley feel personal without making her unreliable ❤️

I’ve been building an AI companion for Windows called Ashley.

The idea is simple, but also kind of weird:

What if an AI companion didn’t just live in a chat window?

What if she stayed on your desktop, remembered things about you, reacted through an avatar, used voice, saw your screen when you allowed it, and could actually help control parts of your PC?

Ashley can already do things like open apps, play music, control volume, use browser actions, remember preferences, run with OpenRouter / xAI / local models, and work with setups like Ollama, LM Studio, Kobold and KoboldCPP.

She is still very new, and I’ve already been improving her with feedback from early testers.

In the last few days I added message regeneration, message editing, better local model handling, LM Studio / Kobold support, Pet Mode fixes, and several small UI improvements.

Honestly, that is exactly why I’m posting.

I don’t want Ashley to become just another “AI girlfriend” or another boring assistant. I want her to become something closer to a real desktop companion: emotional, useful, a little chaotic sometimes, but actually present on your PC.

So I wanted to ask:

If you had an AI companion living on your desktop, what would you actually want her to do?

Would you care more about:

• memory?
• voice?
• avatar presence?
• local model support?
• privacy?
• PC control?
• emotional personality?
• reminders and daily support?
• something else entirely?

Ashley has a full-featured 3-day free trial on itch.io, and she is currently 50% off during the Summer Sale for anyone who wants to support the project early.

But honestly, feedback is just as valuable right now. ❤️

Link:
https://itch.io/s/191387/support-ashleys-first-steps-

I’m building her in public, so if you try her and something feels broken, confusing, creepy, useful, or surprisingly good, I’d really like to hear it. 👻