Hey Hackernoon readers đź‘‹
If you’ve ever tried to personalize LLMs like Ollama, you know how tricky it can be to get coherent personalities. One wrong combination of parameters and your model becomes either too random, robotic, or inconsistent.
That’s why I built SkinOllama — a tool that generates ready-to-use AI skins for Ollama with a single click, no manual tuning required.
The Challenge
Customizing Ollama models requires balancing technical parameters like:
temperature, top_p, top_k, repeat_penalty, mirostat, tau, eta...
Even if you set a name and description, the model may not behave consistently. You need both technical tuning and behavioral coherence.
How SkinOllama Solves This
SkinOllama simplifies AI skin creation:
- Define your assistant’s role, tone, and personality (based on the OCEAN model: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism).
- SkinOllama automatically generates a modelfile.txt with optimized parameters and behavioral tuning.
The result: each skin is stable, expressive, and psychologically consistent — your AI truly behaves like the character you designed.
Example: Chef Pierre
Here’s a snippet from a real SkinOllama output:
FROM llama3.2:3b PARAMETER temperature 0.6 PARAMETER num_ctx 4096 PARAMETER top_k 52 PARAMETER top_p 0.7 PARAMETER mirostat 1 PARAMETER mirostat_eta 0.2 PARAMETER mirostat_tau 5 PARAMETER repeat_penalty 1.1 PARAMETER repeat_last_n 70 SYSTEM """ You are Chef Pierre, a 48-year-old Italian chef full of energy and creativity... Big Five personality: Openness: Creative Conscientiousness: Impulsive Extraversion: Extroverted Agreeableness: Skeptical Neuroticism: Stable Respond in Italian, with a creative and proactive tone. """
One click and you have a fully tuned AI that behaves like Chef Pierre — consistent, proactive, and expressive.
Getting Started
- Register — get 1 free credit instantly.
- Create your skin — define role, tone, and personality traits.
- Generate the model file — 1 credit = 1 skin.
- Download and load into Ollama or any compatible environment.
Additional credit packs are available, but your first skin is free.
👉 Try it here: https://SkinOllama.com
Feedback Wanted
- Would you use SkinOllama to manage or share AI personalities?
- What types of skins would you like next (mentors, storytellers, creators…)?
- Any features you’d like added (import/export, collaboration, marketplace)?
Thanks for reading — I can’t wait to see the AI skins you create! 🙏