Create your own AI character from one sentence
In Candor you can create your own AI character in about a minute. Type one sentence, such as “a sarcastic bartender in Lisbon who writes poetry”, and Auto-Generate fills in the whole sheet for you to read and change: personality, voice, life, first message. A Looks step lets you choose a woman's appearance on pictures, and Create portrait makes one picture of the character for 38.7 credits. The free plan keeps one character of your own at a time; subscribers can have 50. A character must be 18 or older.
Candor’s catalogue has dozens of characters, but the one you have in your head isn’t in it. So you can write your own, and you don’t have to fill in twelve fields to do it.
Start with one sentence
On the Characters page, choose Create a character. At the top of the form is Auto-Generate. Write one sentence:
a sarcastic bartender in Lisbon who writes poetry
Candor drafts the whole sheet from it: a name, an age, who they are, how they talk, what their life looks like, what they want, how they look and the first message they send you. A texting character also gets a week of their own, with a workplace, a friend, a relative and a hobby.
Nothing is saved until you save. Read the draft, change what’s wrong, keep what’s right. Auto-Generate is charged like one chat message.
What’s on the sheet
The form asks for the essentials first: name, age, format (texting or story), who they are, their looks and their first message. The rest sits under “Add more detail”: a tagline, their situation, personality, voice, their life, what they want, and up to six lines they would say.
Those example lines set the tone. The character is told not to recite them back at you, so write lines that sound like them and expect new ones in the same voice.
Pick their looks
The Looks step starts with one choice, Woman or Man.
For a woman, you tap small pictures for ethnicity, hair style, hair colour and eyes, and pick a build from six words. Each tap rewrites the first sentence of “What they look like”, for example “A Latina woman, red hair worn long and wavy, green eyes, athletic build.” It stays ordinary text: add the scar, the glasses, the leather jacket.
For a man there are no pictures yet. Describe him in the same text field.
Give them a face
Create portrait makes one picture of your character: a candid, phone-style photo, waist up. It costs 38.7 credits, the price of any image, and the price is written on the button.
The portrait becomes their picture on the Characters page, in your sidebar and at the top of the conversation. It also becomes the reference for the photos they send you later, so their face stays the same from one photo to the next. A new portrait costs again and replaces the old one.
Two rules: the portrait is always dressed, whatever the description says, and you can’t upload a photo. A character’s face is always generated.
The limits
Your character must be 18 or older, and that’s checked: a sheet that reads as a minor is refused. The free plan keeps one character of your own at a time; with a subscription you can have 50. Messages cost credits like any chat.
Try it
Open the characters and choose Create a character. New accounts start with 200 free credits, no card. For how characters remember, text first and keep a life of their own, read characters are here.
FAQ
How much does it cost to create a character?
Auto-Generate is charged like one chat message, and a portrait costs 38.7 credits, the price of any image. Talking to your character uses credits like any chat.
How many characters of my own can I have?
One at a time on the free plan, 50 with a subscription. Delete one and you can create another.
Can I upload a photo for my character?
No. A character's picture is always generated by Candor from the description you wrote, and the portrait is always dressed.
Can my character be under 18?
No. An age of 18 or over is required, and a sheet that reads as a minor is refused.
Texting or story: what's the difference?
A texting character writes short messages like someone on their phone and gets a week of their own. A story character narrates scenes and asks what you do.
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