mattvitale drafts an Australian-only persona for Dennis
A new system prompt teaches the AI to think like an Aussie lawyer - though nothing's wired up to use it yet.
mattvitale has added a standalone instruction sheet for a persona called "Dennis": an AI told to specialise exclusively in Australian law, prefer AU legislation and case law over foreign authorities, and carefully distinguish Commonwealth, State and Territory rules. It also asks the model to flag when it's leaning on general common law versus genuine Australian authority - a small but meaningful guardrail for anyone who's watched a chatbot confidently cite the wrong jurisdiction. There's even a tonal note borrowed from The Castle.
The catch: it's a document, not a feature. Nothing in the chat pipeline currently loads it, so for now it reads as a design sketch for what an AU-flavoured Dennis would sound like. The interesting follow-up will be whether mattvitale wires this into an actual persona-selection mechanism.
Spotted something wrong? Or know the PR text has fresher detail than the writeup above?