Specific Persona Research Articles

ChatGPT prompts for generating multiple-choice questions in medical education and evidence on their validity: a literature review.

ChatGPT's role in creating multiple-choice questions (MCQs) is growing but the validity of these artificial-intelligence-generated questions is unclear. This literature review was conducted to address the urgent need for understanding the application of ChatGPT in generating MCQs for medical education. Following the database search and screening of 1920 studies, we found 23 relevant studies. We extracted the prompts for MCQ generation and assessed the validity evidence of MCQs. The findings showed that prompts varied, including referencing specific exam styles and adopting specific personas, which align with recommended prompt engineering tactics. The validity evidence covered various domains, showing mixed accuracy rates, with some studies indicating comparable quality to human-written questions, and others highlighting differences in difficulty and discrimination levels, alongside a significant reduction in question creation time. Despite its efficiency, we highlight the necessity of careful review and suggest a need for further research to optimize the use of ChatGPT in question generation. Main messages Ensure high-quality outputs by utilizing well-designed prompts; medical educators should prioritize the use of detailed, clear ChatGPT prompts when generating MCQs. Avoid using ChatGPT-generated MCQs directly in examinations without thorough review to prevent inaccuracies and ensure relevance. Leverage ChatGPT's potential to streamline the test development process, enhancing efficiency without compromising quality.

PEDM: A Multi-task Learning Model for Persona-aware Emoji-embedded Dialogue Generation

As a vivid and linguistic symbol, Emojis have become a prevailing medium interspersed in text-based communication (e.g., social media and chit-chat) to express emotions, attitudes, and situations. Generally speaking, a social-oriented chatbot that can generate appropriate Emoji-embedded responses would be much more competitive, making communications more fun, engaging, and human-like. However, the current Emoji-related research is still in its infancy, leading to an awkward situation of data deficiency. How to develop an Emoji-embedded dialogue system while addressing the lack of data will be interesting and meaningful for the application of future AI. To bridge this gap, we propose a multi-task learning method for persona-aware Emoji-embedded dialogue generation in this article. Specifically, as the benchmark of model training and evaluation, which includes 1.2 million Emoji-embedded tweets and 1.1 million post-response pairs, we first construct a dataset named EmojiTweet to handle the data deficiency problem. Then, a Seq2Seq-based model with multi-task learning is designed to simultaneously learn response generation and Emoji embedding from the constructed non-Emoji dialogue and Emoji-embedded monologue data. Afterward, we incorporate persona factors into our model by adopting persona fusion and personalized bias methods to deliver personalized dialogues with more accurately selected Emojis. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments, where the experimental results and evaluations demonstrate that our model has three key benefits: improved dialogue quality, higher user engagement, and not relying on large-scale Emoji-embedded dialogue data representing specific personas. EmojiTweet will be published publicly via https://mea-lab-421.github.io/EmojiTweet/ .

Reactions to Fact Checking

How do the reasons people post misinformation affect how they respond to fact checking interventions? In this research, we conducted a qualitative study of people who shared misinformation. We started with stories marked as false by a popular fact checker, Snopes, and identified people who posted those stories on Reddit. We interviewed the posters about the story they shared and their five behaviorally distinct personas: Reason to Disagree, Changed Belief, Steadfast Non-Standard Belief, Sharing to Debunk, and Sharing for Humor. Our findings suggest that research to craft better interventions to counter misinformation might benefit from tailoring to specific personas that can serve as design tools for on-going misinformation intervention research.

Advocating for our patients: Speaking up and being heard

Does the following scenario sound familiar? A multidisciplinary team meeting between cardiac surgeons, interventional and non-invasive cardiologists convened for important decisions to be made about patient management. Many confident individuals...

“Sassy Queens”: Stylistic orthographic variation in Twitter and the enregisterment ofAAVE

AbstractRecent computational sociolinguistic analyses of social media have emphasized the potential of using orthographic variation as a proxy for speech, thereby permitting macro‐level quantitative studies of regional and social variation (e.g. Eisenstein, 2015). However, the extent to which stylistic variation may affect these analyses remains largely unexplored. In this paper, I explore how authors use variant spellings stylistically to deploy personae and characterological figures (Agha, 2003), by examining the presence of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) features in a corpus of 15,804 tweets extracted from the timelines of 10 gay British men. I argue that the stylization ofAAVEsignals the development of a very specific persona—the “Sassy Queen”—which relies on an essentialized imagining of Black women as “fierce” and “sassy.” Concluding, I emphasize the value of micro‐level analyses in complementing quantitative analyses of linguistic variation in social media.

Alts and Automediality: Compartmentalising the Self through Multiple Social Media Profiles

Alts and Automediality: Compartmentalising the Self through Multiple Social Media Profiles

Archetype-Based Modeling of Persona for Comprehensive Personality Computing from Personal Big Data.

A model describing the wide variety of human behaviours called personality, is becoming increasingly popular among researchers due to the widespread availability of personal big data generated from the use of prevalent digital devices, e.g., smartphones and wearables. Such an approach can be used to model an individual and even digitally clone a person, e.g., a Cyber-I (cyber individual). This work is aimed at establishing a unique and comprehensive description for an individual to mesh with various personalized services and applications. An extensive research literature on or related to psychological modelling exists, i.e., into automatic personality computing. However, the integrity and accuracy of the results from current automatic personality computing is insufficient for the elaborate modeling in Cyber-I due to an insufficient number of data sources. To reach a comprehensive psychological description of a person, it is critical to bring in heterogeneous data sources that could provide plenty of personal data, i.e., the physiological data, and the Internet data. In addition, instead of calculating personality traits from personal data directly, an approach to a personality model derived from the theories of Carl Gustav Jung is used to measure a human subject’s persona. Therefore, this research is focused on designing an archetype-based modeling of persona covering an individual’s facets in different situations to approach a comprehensive personality model. Using personal big data to measure a specific persona in a certain scenario, our research is designed to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the generated personality model.

Customer Journey Maps for Demographic Online Customer Profiles

In the digital landscape where the customer is defining and reveling in his choices each marketer should look at how best to cater to a specific customer so that both sides walks away smiling. In order to do this most product and service companies are currently drawing up their typical customer profiles and takes it to a higher level by giving the customer profile indicative of a particular segment a specific persona. Personas help marketers to think like the character and draw out the reactions of that person to the changes brought by the company. Companies also plot the typical journey of these indicative personas to identify the touch points so as to improve the total experience by information available at these points. The objective of this study is to draw up different personas who engage in online purchasing methods. Further segmentation is targeted using the demographic variables to arrive at different personas depicting the typical generation of online consumers. It also aims at defining the particular features of these outlined personas. In continuation of this process a consumer journey map for each of these personas would be drawn highlighting the touch points or the points of influence which influences their final decision making.

Crafting a Work Persona in 1970s Petroleum Geology

Taking inspiration from a 1972 study by Allan Sekula that concerned everyday shifts in subjectivity among a set of industrial and technical workers, this paper looks at work persona production in petroleum geology, a profession at the centre of the global oil industries and oil capitalism. Persona production is part of how petroleum geologists explain themselves and their controversial work to one another, and how they manage individual celebrity within their expert community. Taking as its data source obituaries and death notices that circulated inside the profession over the course of the 1970s, the paper concentrates on a specific persona created by petroleum geologists as part of their ritualized mourning practices. Findings presented within the paper show that obituaries and death notices were used to collaboratively craft a work persona that is thoroughly disconnected from energy politics and controversy: the imagined figure of the petroleum geologist that emerges is someone who is rugged, righteous, loving, fraternal, and deeply connected to nature. The stakes of this research concern not only work personas and their histories, but also the material underpinnings of contemporary cultural production and ongoing debates over energy forms and futures.

Not ‘Just Another Brick in the Wall?’ The Symbolism of Groundstone Tools in Natufian and Early Neolithic Southern Levantine Constructions

A phenomenon noted in early sedentary and semi-sedentary settlements in the southern Levant is the use of groundstone tools as ‘building material’ incorporated into structure walls. It is argued in this article that these artefacts should not be perceived merely as construction material, but rather they should be seen as having a symbolic purpose owing to the social and economic significance that groundstone tools acquired during the transition to agriculture and the growing importance of food processing. This assumed symbolic purpose may also originate from ritual contexts in which these artefacts processed foodstuffs and other substances, thereby becoming ‘positive’ symbols of prosperity and success. Such symbolic content may result from their economic significance interlaced with their association with specific persona and familial and personal heritage. It is suggested that the qualities of the tools lent an element of potency to these artefacts and probably led to their inclusion in structure walls. The linkage between persona, space and positive potency may have granted status or protection to the structures and also may have assisted in marking ownership of the property.

Enregisterment of Pittsburghese and the local African American community

In Pittsburgh, there is a recognizable, socially meaningful way of speaking, popularly known as Pittsburghese. Through a number of metapragmatic and metadiscursive practices, Pittsburghese has become enregistered (Agha, 2003, 2007), and thus ideologically linked to a specific persona, the authentic Pittsburgher (Johnstone, 2009, 2011; Johnstone et al., 2006). In this paper, I explore the enregisterment of Pittsburghese in the local African American community, and the ways in which the dialect is a site for the expression and reproduction of cultural values linked to Whites in the city. For African Americans, Pittsburghese is not only indexical of localness but specifically of White localness, which also has the effect of erasing social class distinctions that may otherwise be important to the meanings of Pittsburghese for White residents of the city.

Shades of impersonality: Rhetorical positioning in the academic writing of Italian students of English

This article presents a study on the linguistic strategies used for projecting specific personas in the academic writing of Italian students of English. The issue of authorial stance, namely to what degree writers feel themselves to be not simply writers but also authors with the authority to say something meaningful, has been the topic of much research. A rather obvious linguistic strategy to claim authorial presence is to use first person reference and the corresponding determiners. However, not only is the I emerging from the text, by its very nature, plural, but different genres are associated with differing degrees of I-ism, and these expectations and conventions vary from culture to culture and from period to period. In the context of academic writing, the task of acquiring genre conventions that require authors to position themselves in the text in a certain way, is particularly difficult for L2 students because, being, at the same time, strongly under the influence of their own culture, both genre and cultural conventions might be operating simultaneously. In this paper I explore rhetorical positioning in the academic writing of Italian students of English by delving into the use and function of the first person pronouns I, we, me, and us and their respective determiners. The issue the study investigates is how rhetorical positioning through the use of personal pronouns contribute to project an identity in the practice of the academic writing of Italian students of English.

The Folding Screen of Kitsch

Kitsch, a relatively recent concept in Western art and literature, has given birth to a great deal of debate and discussion. Owing to a variety of descriptions it is difficult to define it. Nevertheless, it can be characterized by discussing the impacts it creates over the audience. Milan Kundera. in his novel The Unbeatable Lightness of Being, has addressed the features of Kitsch by being quite faithful to the political reality of the West. However, he has taken efforts to explain them through the development of individual psychology in a social context. This paper examines how the supposed features of Kitsch surface through the experiences of a specific persona in the novel. The examination suggests, arguably of course, that Kundera’s attempts to elucidate Kitsch experiences involve aesthetic misrepresentation leaving far reaching impact on social or political structure.