Make a writing skill that matches your own voice from your notes and messages
He gave Claude samples of his writing (notes, code comments, iMessages with his wife, with permission) and asked it to write skills matching his voice, adding the humanizer skill.
Source
jamesponddotco on Hacker News · 2026-10-19 · Project link
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-23.
What they did
He gave Claude samples of his writing (notes, code comments, iMessages with his wife, with permission) and asked it to write skills matching his voice, adding the humanizer skill.
Result (as claimed)
He says it worked like a charm and made a company-voice version too.
Tools they used
Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.
Set it up
Pick one goal and metric
For example replies to outreach, ad ideas per week or landing page conversion.
Set up the tools
Open Claude, humanizer, iMessage. Load your offer, audience and examples of what already works.
Generate, then review
Have the agent research and draft. You approve every message, post or ad before it goes out.
Measure and iterate
Track the metric for a week, keep what works and feed the results back into the prompt.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Make a writing skill that matches your own voice from your notes and messages What the original author did: He gave Claude samples of his writing (notes, code comments, iMessages with his wife, with permission) and asked it to write skills matching his voice, adding the humanizer skill. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He says it worked like a charm and made a company-voice version too. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153144 Tools they used: Claude, humanizer, iMessage Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Make a writing skill that matches your own voice from your notes and messages What the original author did: He gave Claude samples of his writing (notes, code comments, iMessages with his wife, with permission) and asked it to write skills matching his voice, adding the humanizer skill. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He says it worked like a charm and made a company-voice version too. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153144 Tools they used: Claude, humanizer, iMessage Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Make a writing skill that matches your own voice from your notes and messages What the original author did: He gave Claude samples of his writing (notes, code comments, iMessages with his wife, with permission) and asked it to write skills matching his voice, adding the humanizer skill. Reported result (as claimed by the author): He says it worked like a charm and made a company-voice version too. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50153144 Tools they used: Claude, humanizer, iMessage Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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