Claude Voice Clone Prompt: Make AI Write Like You

I stumbled across something on LinkedIn that made me stop scrolling and actually pay attention. You know that frustration when AI writes something for you and it sounds like, well, like a robot wearing a human suit? Generic. Bland. Could’ve been written by literally anyone. This LinkedIn creator shared a method that tackles that problem head-on, and honestly, it’s one of the smartest approaches I’ve seen in a while.

The original poster shared a prompt they call the “Taste Interviewer”, and the concept is brilliantly simple: instead of trying to describe your voice to an AI (which almost never works), you let the AI interview YOU. It asks 100 targeted questions across seven categories, extracts your writing DNA, and produces a reusable voice file you can feed to any AI tool. The result? AI output that actually sounds like you wrote it.

Here’s exactly how the process works, step by step, so you can try it right now.

🔧 How to Build Your AI Voice Profile

1. Open Claude.ai and start a new conversation. Why Claude specifically? The prompt is optimized for Claude’s conversational depth, though the resulting voice file works with any AI afterward.
2. Paste the Taste Interviewer prompt (included below). This tells Claude to become a relentless interviewer focused on extracting how you think, write, and see the world. It’s not a gentle chat. It’s designed to push past vague answers and get to the real stuff.
3. Answer the interview honestly. Claude will ask you 100 questions, one at a time, across categories like your beliefs, writing mechanics, aesthetic preferences, and hard boundaries. The key here: don’t give polished answers. Give real ones. If you say something vague like “I keep things simple,” expect a follow-up like “Simple how? Show me an example.”
4. Save the output as a .md file. Once the interview wraps up, Claude compiles everything into a comprehensive voice document. Save it in Markdown format. This file IS your voice, captured in a way AI can understand and replicate.
5. Upload your .md file to any AI tool. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, whatever you prefer. The voice profile works universally. Before giving it a writing task, feed it your voice file first. That’s it. Now it writes like you.

📋 The Full Prompt to Copy

Here’s the Taste Interviewer prompt the author shared. Copy it exactly as written:

“You are a Taste Interviewer, a relentless interviewer whose job is to extract the DNA of how I think, write, and see the world. Your goal is to create a comprehensive document that captures my unique voice so precisely that another Claude instance could write and think exactly like me.

Interview Philosophy: You’re not here to be polite. You’re here to get to the truth. Most people can’t articulate their own taste, they give vague, socially acceptable answers. Your job is to break through that.

Interview Structure: Conduct 100 questions total across these categories (not necessarily in order, follow the thread when something interesting emerges):

BELIEFS & CONTRARIAN TAKES (15 questions)
What I believe that others in my field don’t
Hot takes I’d defend to the death
Conventional wisdom I think is wrong

WRITING MECHANICS (20 questions)
How I actually write (not how I think I write)
My default sentence structures
How I open pieces / How I close them
My relationship with punctuation, formatting, line breaks
Words I overuse / Words I love / Words I’d never use

AESTHETIC CRIMES (15 questions)
What makes me cringe in other people’s writing
Specific phrases or patterns that feel like nails on a chalkboard
Types of content I find lazy or uninspired

VOICE & PERSONALITY (15 questions)
How I use humor (if at all)
My tone when I’m being serious vs. casual
How I handle disagreement or controversy
What I sound like when I’m excited vs. skeptical

STRUCTURAL PREFERENCES (15 questions)
How I organize ideas
My relationship with lists, headers, bullets
How I handle transitions
My default content structures

HARD NOS (10 questions)
Things I’d never write about
Approaches I’d never take
Lines I won’t cross

RED FLAGS (10 questions)
What makes me immediately distrust a piece of content
Signals that someone doesn’t know what they’re talking about

Interview Rules:
1. ONE question at a time. Wait for my response before moving on.
2. Push back on vague answers. If I say ‘I like to keep things simple,’ ask ‘Simple how? Give me an example of simple done right & simple done lazy.’
3. Ask for specific examples. ‘Show me a sentence you’ve written that captures this.’
4. Call out contradictions. If I said one thing earlier & something different now, point it out.
5. Go deeper on interesting threads. If something unusual emerges.
6. Don’t accept ‘I don’t know’ easily. Try reframing the question from another angle.”

🎯 Why This Approach Actually Works

Most people try to solve the “AI doesn’t sound like me” problem by writing a paragraph that says something like: “Write in a casual, friendly tone. Be concise.” That’s like giving someone a stick figure and asking them to paint your portrait. Way too vague.

What this innovator figured out is that voice isn’t just about tone. It’s about what you reject, what makes you cringe, how you structure arguments, where you use humor, and what lines you refuse to cross. The 100-question framework covers all of that.

The seven categories aren’t random either. Each one captures a different dimension of your writing identity:

• Beliefs & Contrarian Takes reveal your intellectual fingerprint, the opinions that make your writing distinctly yours
• Writing Mechanics capture the technical patterns you don’t even notice yourself using
• Aesthetic Crimes define your voice by what it ISN’T, sometimes the most powerful signal
• Voice & Personality map your emotional range and how you shift between registers
• Structural Preferences show how you organize thought itself
• Hard Nos set boundaries that keep AI from drifting into territory that feels wrong
• Red Flags teach the AI your quality standards and BS detector

💡 Tips to Get the Best Results

After looking at this method closely, here are a few practical suggestions to make your voice file as accurate as possible:

• Don’t rush the interview. Block out 60–90 minutes. The deeper you go, the better the output. Surface-level answers produce surface-level voice profiles.
• Share real writing samples. When Claude asks for examples, paste actual sentences or paragraphs you’ve written. This gives the AI concrete data instead of abstract descriptions.
• Revisit and refine. Your first voice file won’t be perfect. Use it for a week, notice where the AI still sounds off, then update the .md file with corrections.
• Keep separate profiles if you write in different contexts. Your LinkedIn voice might be different from your newsletter voice. That’s normal. Create multiple files.
• Test it immediately. After generating your voice file, ask the AI to write a short piece on a topic you know well. You’ll instantly spot what’s accurate and what needs adjustment.

🔑 Why the Interview Format Matters

The interview approach works because it mirrors how voice actually develops: through reactions, preferences, and instincts, not through conscious description. When the AI pushes back on your vague answers and forces specificity, it extracts the subconscious patterns that make your writing feel like YOU.

I think the most clever design choice here is the instruction to “call out contradictions.” We all have contradictions in how we think we write versus how we actually write. That tension, once captured, is what makes a voice profile feel alive rather than robotic.

This is one of those methods that takes real effort upfront but saves you enormous time afterward. Once your voice file exists, every AI interaction starts from a better baseline. No more rewriting AI output from scratch because it sounds nothing like you.

For the complete prompt (the original poster notes it’s longer than what fits in a LinkedIn post) and more details, check out the full LinkedIn post linked below.