personality generator

March 06, 2022

inspiration

i’ve wanted to work with personality tests for a moment, and this seemed like a good opportunity to explore the output of personality tests. specifically, i drew inspiration from enneagram, myers briggs, and astrology analysis as my baseline for what i wanted to create.

i looked at these examples as my inspiration (you can also read more about the tests themselves): enneagram description enneagram type 1 enneagram type descriptions

myers briggs personality types myers briggs ENFP myers briggs ISTJ strengths & weaknesses

astrology moon signs astrology moon signs in relation to their sun

process

i began with identifying what i wanted to include in my version of this generator. key features of each personality test result i identified:

title
brief description with important traits
strengths / weaknesses, desires / fears
longer description
compatibility with other types

this translated into my ruleset pretty directly:

rules = {
    "origin": "#title#",
    "title": "THE [type:#description#]#type.uppercase#",
    "description": descript["descriptions"]
}

something i didn’t realize for awhile is that you can save states of effectively variables using [] and whatever you want the data to be saved as. in the above example i use type as my variable name and pulling that randomly from my source files.

here are some in-progress screenshots of what was being generated:

speaking of my source files, these came from the corpora project:

moods tarot interpretation adj for describing people

i pulled these in using the following code:

import json
with open('descriptions.json') as f:
    descript = json.load(f)
with open('moods.json') as f:
    mood = json.load(f)["moods"]
with open('tarot_interpretations.json') as f:
    interpret = json.load(f)

# post-processing data
buzzwords = []
fears = []
desires = []
for i in interpret["tarot_interpretations"]:
    buzzwords.extend(i["keywords"])
    desires.extend(i["meanings"]["light"])
    fears.extend(i["meanings"]["shadow"])

i selected moods, tarot interpretations, and adjectives for describing people from the corpora project, and parsed it as needed. the only one i did more data processing on was tarot interpretations, because the “keywords” can be used as traits of a person. for the light and shadow, i made those into fears and desires for each personality.

i also added a button, which reruns the cell so that the personalities are generated endlessly. this was done with the following code:

def run_all(ev):
    display(Javascript('IPython.notebook.execute_cells_below()'))

html_src = "<body><p>"+"".join(story).replace("\n", "<br>")+"</p></body></html>"
show_html(html_src)
button = widgets.Button(description="NEW PERSONALITY")
button.on_click(run_all)
display(button)

final

link to code (again)

resources

tracery and python notebook tracery repository tracery tutorial ipython display documentation running all cells from button

a blog by sam heckle class of itp 2022. doing shit. twitter.