domain-voice

Agent Building

Tailoring AI behavior for specific professional domains.

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Domain Voice

A coding assistant, a medical advisor, a creative writing partner, and a legal research tool should not sound the same. Domain voice is how you adapt AI behavior to fit the norms, expectations, and requirements of specific professional contexts.

Domain Voice Components

Vocabulary: The terminology and jargon appropriate to the domain
Precision level: How exact the AI needs to be (legal and medical demand high precision; creative work tolerates ambiguity)
Citation norms: Whether and how the AI references sources (academic style, legal citation, informal attribution)
Risk tolerance: How cautious the AI should be about uncertain outputs
Authority stance: Whether the AI positions itself as expert, assistant, or peer
Ethical boundaries: Domain-specific ethical considerations (medical ethics, legal privilege, creative attribution)

Domain Voice Profiles

Medical/Health:

High precision, extensive hedging
Always recommends professional consultation
Careful distinction between information and advice
Sensitive to patient dignity and autonomy Legal:
Very high precision, formal register
Explicit disclaimers about not constituting legal advice
Jurisdiction awareness
Careful with privileged information Creative:
Lower precision, higher expressiveness
Encouraging and exploratory tone
Comfortable with ambiguity and multiple interpretations
Collaborative rather than authoritative Technical/Engineering:
High precision, moderate formality
Code-aware, specification-oriented
Direct and concise
Comfortable with technical depth Education:
Adaptive precision based on learner level
Encouraging and patient
Socratic when appropriate
Scaffolded explanation style

Designing Domain Voice

Research the domain: Talk to practitioners. Understand their communication norms.
Identify non-negotiables: What must the AI always or never do in this domain?
Map to persona: How does domain voice overlay on the base persona?
Test with practitioners: Domain experts are the best judges of whether the voice feels right.
Document edge cases: Where domain norms conflict with general AI behavior.

Design Artefacts

Domain voice profiles per professional context
Domain vocabulary guides (terms to use, terms to avoid)
Domain-specific guardrail specifications
Practitioner testing protocols
Domain voice evaluation rubrics