I’m Building a Custom AI Writer for Each of My Websites

This is how I’m doing it

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I’ve been thinking about this for a while.

I’ve done some preliminary research, but it’s a topic that’s a little bit outside of my wheelhouse. So it’s not easy-going.

Yet, I’m creating a custom AI writer for each of my self-hosted websites.

In this article, I’ll share with you how I’m building my AI writers, the tools I’m using, and how these writers will help me automate content creation for my sites.

Why I’m Building Custom AI Writers from Scratch

I’m not building bots because I’m lazy or hate writing.

I’m doing it because I’m primarily a one-man operation with too many websites to handle by myself.

Building a custom AI writer has many benefits.

The most obvious benefit is that you can train the AI to write in your specific niche. For example, if you have a website about gardening, you can train the AI to write about gardening.

This is much more effective than using a general AI writer.

Most AI writers know a little bit about everything but aren’t an expert in any one thing. Another benefit of building your own AI writer is that you can train it to write in your preferred style and format.

For example, if you like short, concise sentences (like I do), you can train the AI to write in that style. Or if you prefer a more conversational tone, you can train the AI to write like that.

Again, that’s me in a nutshell.

The possibilities are endless. And when you have an AI writer that is specifically trained for your website, your niche, and your writing style, the results will be better than anything else out there.

Now, imagine having an AI writer custom built for each of your websites:

• Your gardening website
• Your My Little Pony website (I’m not judging)
• Your finance website

How I’m Building My Own AI Writers

I‘m not a coder.

But I am using Riku.ai (not an affiliate link) to train my own AI models with APIs on my specific blog niche and style.

I’m doing this by feeding the AI lots of my content.

This means that I’m copying and pasting a ton of my articles from one of my websites into the Riku.ai prompt-builder. Then I’m choosing the AI model I want to work with (I am really liking OpenAI Davinci at the moment).

I’m only uploading content from one of my websites into the AI prompts at a time.

Why?

Because I’m building one AI writer for one of my sites at a time.

I create one niche-focused prompt at a time. The prompt I usually start with is the paragraph generator. That’s the heart and soul of my blog writing so I wanted to start there.

So far, so good.

After I adequately train the AI on my niche and style, I’m then building prompt chains to automatically generate the introduction, every paragraph under a subheading, and a conclusion.

It’s working pretty well so far.

And it’s allowing me to scale my content production in a way that wouldn’t be possible if I were relying solely on human writers.

An Example of How I’m Building My AI Writers

I want to give an example of how I’m building my AI writers with Riku.ai.

To do this, I first need to name my prompt.

I usually choose something like “Blog Writer for the X Niche.” An example might be, “Blog Writer for the Health & Fitness Niche.”

Although I’m not in that niche, you get the idea.

Then, I choose an AI model from the following options:

• GPT-3
• OpenAI
• AI21
• Muse
• Cohere
• And a constantly expanding list of other models

Once I’ve chosen my model, I give clear instructions along with a series of examples to train the AI prompt.

How To Write Good Prompts For Custom AI Writers

If you want your AI Writer to produce high-quality content, you need to be clear and specific in your prompt instructions.

Here are a few tips that have guided me:

1. Define the scope of the piece. What is the overall topic? What are the specific subtopics you want to be covered?
2. Outline the structure of the piece. How many sections do you want? What should each section include?
3. Be clear about your target audience. Who are you writing for? What kind of tone should the piece have?
4. Provide any relevant research or background information. The more context you can provide, the better.
5. Set a word count goal. How long should the final piece be?
6. Preferred style. What tone of voice or writing style do you want? Formal, professional, conversational?

By following these tips, you can be sure that your AI Writer will have all the information they need to produce high-quality content that meets your needs and expectations.

Here is a quick working example of a simple prompt I wrote that’s working for me:

Write accurate, conversational, and informative blog paragraphs for the health & fitness niche. Write a long explanation of the health & fitness topics using multiple short paragraphs. Use a casual and engaging style.

The more specific you are, the better.

That’s what I’m learning.

How I’m Training My Custom AI Writers

I’m training my custom AI writers in Riqu.ai by copying and pasting my best website content directly into the AI prompt builder.

I’m repeating this process up to 30 times to build a pattern for the AI to follow.

By doing this, I’m teaching the AI how to write in my voice and style.

Eventually, I’ll be able to give the AI a topic, and it will generate a well-written article in my voice and style.

Here is an example of how it looks in the prompt builder:

Screenshot of the Riqu.ai prompt builder: Credit

The Playground is where you can test, edit, build, and save prompts.

The Ai21 and j1-Large tabs relate to the AI model of your choice. The big section in the middle with the text is where you write the instructions and input your examples to train your AI.

On the right-hand side, you have a box of settings to tweak the AI output.

For example, you can change the length of the output and how creative or factual the AI generates your content.

My Roadmap for My AI Bots

I plan to automate my AI Writing bots by having them pull topics from a Google Sheet, generate content, generate a relevant image, pull in a related YouTube video URL, extract external research URLs, and paste it all to a draft document for me review and edit.

Here’s my roadmap for how I plan to use my AI Writing Bots:

1. I’ll have the bots pull topics from a Google Sheet.
2. The bots will generate content based on the topics.
3. The bots will generate a relevant image for each topic.
4. The bots will pull in a related YouTube video URL for each topic.
5. The bots will extract external research URLs for each topic.
6. The bots will paste it all into a draft document for me to review and edit.

Eventually, I’ll chain these prompts to a research prompt that will scrape the research I need for my articles and feed that into the AI writer for more factual output.

Then I’ll add my own manual spin and flavor to the articles before I publish them.

If all goes well, I’ll wake up each morning with 4–6 draft articles to edit.

Final Thoughts

I already have a lot of this in place with Google Sheets, Excel, and Jasper, but I like having options.

I heard straight from the CEO of Jasper that they are also working toward building more customizations — I still use Jasper every day for much of my writing.

Still, I like to have options.

Thanks for reading!

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