How to create a personal agent

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I am interested in further education related to the development of an AI-supported personal strategic life agent. Such a system could also be described as a Personal AI Agent, Executive Life Design Agent, Opportunity Discovery Agent, Strategic Coaching Agent, or AI-based Personal Foresight and Coaching System. The idea is to build a human-centred AI tool that continuously gathers relevant information from the environment, analyses it in relation to personal goals, and supports strategic life and career decisions.

The system would ideally consist of several modules: a relevance filter that selects information aligned with personal life goals (e.g., income, time, wellbeing, freedom, long-term security); a personal goal model containing values, interests, competencies, lifestyle and income goals, and risk tolerance; a coaching engine that asks reflective questions, challenges assumptions, and clarifies priorities; an opportunity scanner that identifies new professional fields, collaborations, market niches, or scalable activities; and a future-readiness module that analyses trends and helps prepare for future developments and skills requirements.

The key concept is that the system should not simply aggregate information but function as a goal-oriented agent that evaluates information according to individually defined success and life criteria. Its guiding question would be: Which decisions, activities, and opportunities increase life satisfaction, freedom, future security, and income without exceeding a sustainable workload?

Ideally, the system would provide regular outputs such as relevant strategic developments, potential opportunities, emerging risks, reflective coaching questions, and concrete next steps. I would like to know whether your institution offers any programs or courses related to the design, development, or application of such AI-based personal decision-support or coaching systems.

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Hey there @Jonas_Marty

We have plenty of courses regarding ai agents, how to build them, understand them, make them bigger, etc.. Your specific use case to me seems like a personal/company project you are more likely to understand how to build after learning rather than being a course project you build in 2 hours or so. And as mentioned, the learning material here is plenty but I don’t know your level as a developer to suggest a specific course but generally most courses are very beginner-friendly.

Just on the side though, it seems your app would require a massive amount of personal data to be able to function as accurately and effectively as you’d want it. So in the meantime, you could think about the sources of this data, the formats they’re in, the ethical considerations of the entire thing. In an app like that (or in my personal opinion, any ai-based app), your data is king, so you shouldn’t overlook it.

Best Regards

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Thank you very much for your reply — I really appreciate it. I agree with you that data is crucial, and I have already thought quite a lot about that aspect. My knowledge of AI is fairly solid, but my development skills are quite basic.

So, which courses would you recommend for building a first agent?

Best Regards

Jonas

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hi @Jonas_Marty

Try the short course Build with Andrew, you can create your own app, a good start to practice, but depends on how much have you understood till now about llms, agents and tag architectures.

regards
Dr. Deepti

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There are a lot of people out there thinking the same thing: making a personal AI Assistant.

I already had an idea for the name: MyPai (Sounds like my pie).
After some initial courses Python, ML, Python and ChatGPT I’m now enrolled in Agentic Workflows.
When finished my plan is to start making MyPai with a simple task, something I do everyday and than expanding the tasks. So everyday I check my mail and it takes time, what is spam, what is something I don’t need to respond to, something I need respond to in a week or the same day, and so-on. I will start every task by making a backup of ,my mailbox :slight_smile:

Do you have any thoughts on this?

With regards
Gerard

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Hy Gerard,

I was thinking more of an assistant who could coach me on life. Like a “Siri”-like voice that talks to me, gives me feedback, or asks me questions about certain topics.

Which course would help me with this topic?

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To be honest I think you could use ChatGPT to do that already. You just have to make a specific GPT which you feed with specific information. You could than use a number of prompts to make ChatGPT act as a LifeCoach. You could use Python to interact with ChatGPT and set is it up for you. So a prompt engineering course using Python with ChatGPT is a good way to go. But since I’m not an expert perhaps there are more ideas?

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Thank’s a lot Gerard!! I will try!

Best regards
Jonas