Improved prompting and process for writing user personas with LLMs, using qualitative interviews: Capturing behaviour and personality traits of users

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This draft paper presents a workflow for creating User Personas with Large Language Models, using the results of a Thematic Analysis of qualitative interviews.

• The proposed workflow uses improved prompting and a larger pool of Themes, compared to previous work conducted by the author for the same task.
• This is possible due to the capabilities of a recently released LLM which allows the processing of 16 thousand tokens (GPT3.5-Turbo-16k) and also due to the possibility to offer a refined prompting for the creation of Personas.
• The paper offers details of performing Phase 2 and 3 of Thematic Analysis, and then discusses the improved workflow for creating Personas.