Customizing Your AI Assistant Context

Customizing your AI assistant's context allows the AI to provide more relevant, tailored responses based on your specific role, jurisdiction, and practice preferences. By setting up your profile in settings, you ensure the AI understands your professional context.

Why customize your AI assistant context?

Customizing your assistant context helps the AI:

• Provide jurisdiction-specific legal guidance
• Use appropriate terminology for your role and practice area
• Understand your workflow preferences
• Deliver more relevant responses
• Save time by not having to specify context in every query

Accessing AI assistant settings

1. Click on your profile icon or settings gear in Whisperit

2. Navigate to "AI Assistant Settings" or "Profile"

3. Look for the "Context" or "Preferences" section

Key settings to configure

Your role

Specify your professional role to help the AI tailor its responses:

• Lawyer/Attorney: General legal practice
• In-house Counsel: Corporate legal department
• Legal Researcher: Research-focused work
• Paralegal: Legal support role
• Law Student: Educational context
• Other legal professional: Custom roles

Why it matters: The AI will adjust its communication style, depth of explanation, and assumptions about your legal knowledge based on your role.

Jurisdiction

Set your primary jurisdiction(s) where you practice:

• Country (e.g., Switzerland, United States, United Kingdom)
• State/Canton (if applicable)
• Multiple jurisdictions (if you practice cross-border)

Why it matters: Legal principles, procedures, and terminology vary significantly by jurisdiction. Setting this ensures the AI provides relevant legal information for your location.

Practice areas

Indicate your primary practice areas:

• Contract Law
• Corporate Law
• Litigation
• Intellectual Property
• Employment Law
• Real Estate
• Family Law
• Criminal Law
• And more...

Why it matters: The AI can prioritize relevant legal concepts and use appropriate specialized terminology.

Language preferences

Set your preferred language for AI responses:

• Working language: Although the platform language is English, Whisperit currently supports over 50 languages including English, German, French, and Spanish, as well as others such as Italian, Polish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Greek, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Croatian, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Irish, Slovak, Bulgarian, Slovenian, Russian and others. It also understands legal terms and expressions in each supported language.

• Your legal terminology preferences

• Your localization preferences, such your preferred currency, time and date format and number format. You can also include specific styles or spellings based on your language or regional dialect.

• The formality level you prefer

Response style preferences

Detail level:
• Concise: Brief, to-the-point responses
• Standard: Balanced detail
• Detailed: Comprehensive explanations

Tone:
• Professional/Formal
• Conversational
• Technical/Academic

Document preferences

Set default preferences for document-related tasks:

• Preferred citation format
• Document structure preferences
• Standard clauses or templates you frequently use

How to update your settings

1. Access settings: Open the AI Assistant Settings page

2. Fill in your profile: Complete all relevant fields

3. Save changes: Click "Save" or "Update Profile"

4. Test the changes: Ask the AI a question to see how it applies your context

Best practices for context customization

Be specific

The more detailed your profile, the better the AI can assist you. Don't just select "Lawyer" - specify your practice areas and jurisdiction.

Keep it updated

Update your profile when:
• You change practice areas
• You start working in a new jurisdiction
• Your role changes
• Your preferences evolve

Use multiple profiles (if available)

If you work across different contexts (e.g., both corporate and litigation), consider setting up different profiles or templates.

Test and refine

After updating your settings:

• Ask typical questions to see how the AI responds
• Adjust settings if responses aren't quite right
• Iterate until you get optimal results

Examples of how context affects responses

Without context

"What are the requirements for a valid contract?"

AI provides general contract law principles without specific jurisdiction.

With context (Swiss Law, Corporate Lawyer)

"What are the requirements for a valid contract?"

AI provides: "Under Swiss law (OR Art. 1), a valid contract requires..." with specifics relevant to Swiss corporate practice.

Combining context with prompts

Your saved context works together with prompts:
• Context provides the baseline understanding
• Prompts can override or add to context for specific queries
• Saved prompts can reference your context settings

Privacy and context

Your profile settings:
• Are private to your account
• Are not shared unless you explicitly share documents
• Can be updated or cleared at any time
• Help personalize your experience without compromising confidentiality