# Personas

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**Personas** are AI-driven characters you can place into many Ovation scenarios to make practice feel like a real conversation. Each Persona has a name, age, and sex, along with a bio/personality prompt that defines how they behave. In sessions, Personas listen and respond in real time, so learners must adapt on the fly, building composure and interpersonal skills.

Use Personas to shape the “room”: assign one or many to simulate investor panels, mock interviews, clinical conversations, or thesis defenses. As you speak, Ovation interprets your words and cues, and each Persona reacts according to its prompt—some validate, others challenge—but every exchange feels dynamic and human.

## Personas Blog Post

Learn more about the benefits of Personas in our blog post: [Personas: Design Complex AI Characters for Role-Play](https://blog.ovationvr.com/personas-design-complex-ai-characters-for-role-play/)


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