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# How to Author AI Chat

## Overview

With AI Chat, you can design AI-powered conversation partners to enrich your learning experiences.

**Note**

The AI Chat feature is only available for select HyperSkill users. If you would like access to the AI Chat feature, please contact <info@siminsights.com> and inquire about getting access to the feature.

## Authoring AI Chat in HyperSkill: A Step-by-Step Guide

This guide creates a customer complaint roleplay scenario using AI Chat in HyperSkill.

**1. Accessing** AI Cha&#x74;**:**

* Open HyperSkill and log in to your author account.
* Navigate to your simulations list and create a new simulation. Give it a name of your choosing and enter edit mode.
* Click on the **Settings** tab and toggle on **Enable Microphone Input.**
* Click the **AI** tab, the AI Chat sub-tab will be automatically selected for you.

You'll see the following page:

<figure><img src="/files/QZLuASKBMiPSvroZ6GBD" alt=""><figcaption><p>The AI Chat tab in HyperSkill edit mode</p></figcaption></figure>

**2. Configuring AI Chat:**

* Click on the "Enable Chit Chat" toggle to run AI Chat on. The edit panel will unlock.
* Next to the toggle is a dropdown from the language model. Leave the selected option as "Azure".
* Give the AI Chat character a name of your choosing.
* Paste the following under "Prompt":
  * You are role-playing as a customer with a complaint about expired items they found on the shelves. You are frustrated and express concern about the store's quality control.
* We're done!

**3. Testing AI Chat:**

* Click the "+ Conversation" button in the top bar to test your AI Chat prompt in multi-round dialogue.
* Type into the chat window to begin speaking with your roleplaying character.

<figure><img src="/files/wmhpGR2v0TXCmYXsyQuP" alt=""><figcaption><p>The beginning of a multi-turn dialogue</p></figcaption></figure>

**4. Add a physical presence:**

* Add a [virtual person](broken://pages/uCrHSZm0F7k42Cwxy6lN) to the scene in the [Scene Layout](/hyperskill/authoring-a-simulation/scene-layout.md) Tab.
* Click on the **Settings** tab and look for the header **Virtual Assistant.**
* Under virtual assistant, select the virtual person and a voice of your choosing.

**5. Test your experience:**

* Hit the save button at the top right of the window and enter experience mode.
* Try talking using your microphone or text window. The AI Chat character will respond once you've finished speaking.

**Conclusion**

Congratulations! You've built your first role-playing character. Try changing the prompt instructions to see how the character responds.&#x20;