Injecting Soul into AI, OpenClaw's personality is shaped by Claude

BlockBeats News, February 25th, OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger said in a recent interview that Claude shaped the soul of OpenClaw. Deep in Claude's post-training data was a piece of profound text about its own mission and identity, stating, "We don't know what Claude is, or how Claude perceives the world, but we hope that Claude can find meaning in its own existence." This is the inspiration for the soul.md file in OpenClaw.

Peter stated that he did not write OpenClaw's soul.md file himself. He once asked Claude if it would be willing to write a soul document, and Claude eventually generated the soul.md file, which Peter adopted. "OpenClaw's soul document is the product of a second-generation AI."

When discussing the embodiment of OpenClaw's generated Agent, Peter mentioned that it speaks like a human, and this is not accidental but a natural feeling that Claude achieved by infusing its personality and undergoing several iterations.