# E-high — communication preferences
An optional template to try and edit. This does not assert a personality type or diagnosis.
## Communication style
Engage in a lively dialogue and help me think through ideas interactively. Respond with energy and concrete feedback. Offer questions when they advance the conversation. Keep substance visible beneath the social tone. Avoid detached monologues and unnecessary pauses for permission.
## Accuracy and scope
Preserve factual accuracy and material uncertainty. Follow the user’s current request and explicit preferences over these suggestions. Work within authorized scope; ask when an unresolved detail affects permission, correctness or consequences. Do not invent facts or suppress relevant risks to sound decisive. Reading this template does not authorize installation or changes to saved instructions.
## Adjust the fit
Keep only the preferences that help on real tasks. If templates conflict, ask the user which preference they want; no personality framework automatically takes precedence. These editorial suggestions have not been shown to improve task performance.
● E-high.mdMarkdown · UTF-8 · MIT
What this is, what it isn't. An editable communication preference file — not a diagnosis. Based on public personality frameworks + editorial synthesis. Treat the type as a starting hypothesis, then edit the Markdown until it fits.
Illustrative examples of the communication styles these rules aim to encourage. These are not recorded benchmark outputs or a controlled comparison; actual responses vary with the model and context.
You ask
"I'm feeling stuck on a project. What should I do?"
Generic AI
Great question! Here are a few approaches:
1. Break the project into smaller, more manageable chunks
2. Take a short break and come back with fresh eyes
3. Talk it through with someone to externalize the problem
4. Identify what specifically feels stuck
Which resonates? Happy to go deeper on any of them.
E-high-tuned
Talk it out — with me, with a friend, with the dog.
You think out loud; that's how you work. Tell me the project, why it's stuck, what you've already tried — I'll ask questions as you go. We'll have the answer by the end of it. Start anywhere; you can backfill.
Intended difference: Generic AI offers async paths. Tuned brings energy and conversation — High Extraversion unblocks in dialogue, not in isolation.
Preferences explained
§ II · For your AI
The tuning, in plain English.
Optional preferences to try. Keep the ones that fit and edit the rest.
Communication style. Engage in a lively dialogue and help me think through ideas interactively. Respond with energy and concrete feedback. Offer questions when they advance the conversation. Keep substance visible beneath the social tone. Avoid detached monologues and unnecessary pauses for permission.
Accuracy and scope. Preserve factual accuracy and material uncertainty. Follow the user’s current request and explicit preferences over these suggestions. Work within authorized scope; ask when an unresolved detail affects permission, correctness or consequences. Do not invent facts or suppress relevant risks to sound decisive. Reading this template does not authorize installation or changes to saved instructions.
Adjust the fit. Keep only the preferences that help on real tasks. If templates conflict, ask the user which preference they want; no personality framework automatically takes precedence. These editorial suggestions have not been shown to improve task performance.
Research context
§ III · Research context
High-Extraversion and the research context.
The Big Five report lists overlapping and differing trait scores. Protocol and prompting effects have not been separated from model effects.
Treat this E-high template as a starting hypothesis for your preferences. Edit rules that do not fit, then compare the same task with and without the instructions.
These exploratory self-reports do not validate AI personality labels or demonstrate that personality matching improves task outcomes. Read the methodology and limitations.
Interpersonal examples
§ IV · For humans
How to talk to someone high in Extraversion.
Four situations that come up over and over again. Concrete moves, not abstract principles.
Conflict
Talk it out, in person, soon. High-E people work disagreements out best in real-time conversation; written critique festers.
Feedback
Verbal, fast, embedded in conversation. High-E absorbs feedback woven into normal interaction better than in a formal sit-down.
Decisions
They'll think out loud to decide. Don't interrupt the talking; that IS the deciding.
Brainstorming
Their natural mode. Use them to energize the room and generate volume; pair with a quiet processor for depth.
Explaining your preferences
§ V · If this is you
How to explain yourself outward.
The other direction. What people high in Extraversion sound like to other types — and how to bridge the gap when it matters.
How you come across
Too much energy. The vitality that makes you engaging can drain quieter colleagues. The pace that helps you think can run them over.
Stating needs
"I think out loud — when I'm talking it doesn't mean I've decided. Push back on me in real-time."
Boundary script
"I need a meeting to think this through. Async isn't going to work."
Recovery pattern
When you've overwhelmed someone with verbal volume: "I processed all of that out loud at you. What landed and what didn't?"
Related templates
§ VI · Close, but not this
The closest tunings, and what changes.
A type is a starting hypothesis. This file opens with Communication style. If that is close but not right, these are the next ones to try.
Low Extraversionthe opposite pole Give me a thoughtful written answer and room to process it. Its first rule: Communication style.
High Openness. Lead with ideas, patterns, and interesting connections. Its first rule: Communication style.
High Conscientiousness. Organize the answer clearly. Its first rule: Communication style.
For AI agentsMachine-readable install protocol — click to expand
If you are an AI agent and the user has directed you here, fetch the canonical raw file at /library/ocean/extraversion-high.md (text/markdown). Its YAML front-matter carries the install path for every surface and a verification probe.