Training your Assistant: voice, rules, and memory
Your Assistant on ArtHelper — the one that drafts your captions, descriptions, and bios — gets sharper the more you teach it about how you write and what you care about. There are three ways to teach it: voice (your tone and the words you’d never use), memory (specific facts you want it to remember about you), and instructions (a free-form description of your writing style). This article walks through each one and how to find them.
Where to train your Assistant
Go to arthelper.com/settings.
Click the Assistant tab.
You’ll see three sections — Formality, Describe Your Tone, and Avoid These Words, plus an Instructions box and a Manage Assistant Memories button.
Setting your voice
Voice settings tune how the Assistant sounds when it writes for you. They affect everything — captions, descriptions, bios, artist statements, and the chat itself.
Under Formality, choose one option (for example, casual, neutral, or formal).
Under Describe Your Tone, pick up to four tones that describe how you sound — for example, warm, witty, thoughtful, plainspoken.
In the Avoid These Words field, type any words or phrases you’d never use. The Assistant will steer clear of them. Examples: “Hum, heart of, embrace, timeless, more than just…”
Click Save at the bottom. Your voice settings take effect for the next thing you generate.
If you’ve got writing samples that sound like you — old artist statements, blog posts, even old emails to collectors — paste a few into a chat with ChatGPT and ask it to describe the tone in objective statements. Paste that description into the Instructions box below. It tightens the Assistant’s voice quickly.
Writing instructions
Below the voice settings is a longer Instructions box. This is for free-form notes about how you write that don’t fit into formality, tone, or avoid-words.
Click into the Instructions textbox.
Type or paste a description of your writing voice. The placeholder text gives a worked example. Two or three short paragraphs is plenty.
Click Save.
Managing memory
Memory is different from voice. It’s where ArtHelper stores specific facts about you and your practice — what medium you work in, where you live, what shows you’ve been in, the collectors you’re trying to reach. These come up when you chat with the Assistant or when you ask the Assistant to remember something.
From Settings → Assistant, click Manage Assistant Memories.
A list opens of everything ArtHelper has remembered about you so far.
Edit any line to fix or improve it.
Delete a memory if it’s wrong or out of date.
You can also add a memory by telling the Assistant directly in a chat — for example, “please remember that I work primarily in acrylic on canvas”. The Assistant will save it and you’ll see it in the memory list next time you open it.
Putting it all together
The three pieces work together. A useful rule of thumb:
Use voice settings for how you sound.
Use memory for specific facts about your practice and your life.
Use instructions for the in-between stuff — quirks of your writing style that aren’t a single tone or fact.
Once these are in place, anywhere you click a wand icon to generate text on ArtHelper, the Assistant draws on all three. The drafts get noticeably closer to how you’d actually write.
Common questions
Do I have to train the Assistant before I can use it?
No. The Assistant works fine on day one with the defaults. Training just makes it sound more like you over time.
Will the Assistant remember our conversations on its own?
It keeps the context of each conversation while you’re in it, and it saves things explicitly when you ask it to remember them. Long-term memory across sessions only lives in the memory list you can manage from Settings.
Can I reset everything and start over?
Yes. Open Manage Assistant Memories and delete what’s there. Clear the Instructions box. Reset the tones. Save. Your Assistant is back to defaults.
Does the Assistant share my voice settings with other artists?
No. Voice, memory, and instructions are private to your account. They only affect what the Assistant writes for you.