--- title: If Someone Found My Phone After I Was Gone | daily.dev description: A software engineer asks ChatGPT to imagine he has died and someone has found his phone, then shares the AI's resulting character portrait of him almost... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/if-someone-found-my-phone-after-i-was-gone-o5lzchkzc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: If Someone Found My Phone After I Was Gone | daily.dev og:description: A software engineer asks ChatGPT to imagine he has died and someone has found his phone, then shares the AI's resulting character portrait of him almost... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/if-someone-found-my-phone-after-i-was-gone-o5lzchkzc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/O5LzChkZc.png og:image:alt: If Someone Found My Phone After I Was Gone og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # If Someone Found My Phone After I Was Gone **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A software engineer asks ChatGPT to imagine he has died and someone has found his phone, then shares the AI's resulting character portrait of him almost verbatim. The piece is a personal, introspective essay about identity, ambition, insecurity, and unfinished projects, framed through an AI-generated reflection rather than any technical discussion. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@sreyasumesh** · 0 upvotes > Can you share the prompt and the setting you asked this in? I keep making my gemini build a personal profile of me, but it doesn't have cross chat memory and doesn't even remember yesterday's chats to give a meaningful response. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI: Nobody’s in There. Free if You Cannot Pay. 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