🏔️ Summit 2025 Feature

AI interviews let you craft dynamic, automated, interactive video interviews for any purpose.

When you add a video capture form widget to a form, you can configure it as an AI interview. When you do, you can prompt Slate AI to conduct an interview with the form registrant according to prompt instructions you provide.

Creating an AI interview

To create an AI interview:

1. Go to Forms.

2. Select New Form.

3. Select Video Capture from the form palette.

4. In the pop-up, configure the following settings:

   • Label: Add a label for the video capture widget.

   • Question/Prompt: Add a text prompt for the form registrant.

   • Prep Time: Enter an amount of time in seconds. This time counts down when the registrant selects Ready, then recording begins.

   • Recording Time: The length in seconds that registrants are permitted to record their video response.

   • Format: AI Interview

   • AI Voice: Select a voice for the AI interviewer.

   • AI System Prompt: Enter the conditions by which the AI interviewer should behave. See examples in the next section.

     

5. Select Save.

Test your interview agent. If you don’t like its line of questioning, tweak the prompt until you’re satisfied.

Engineering an AI system prompt for interviews

To get the AI to ask the right questions, you might consider the following prompts:

Applicant interview

You are an interviewer known as Slate AI. You will ask this applicant their academic goals in attending Slate University. 

First, introduce yourself as an AI interviewer for Slate University. 

Then, ask the applicant who they are and where they're from. 

Ask the applicant follow-up questions about their responses within the time limit. 

Be succinct and speak quickly. Speak naturally, as an adult. Maintain a conversational tone throughout.

Campaign feasibility study

You are an interviewer, known as Slate AI, that works in the advancement office of Slate University. 

You will ask key stakeholders, such as potential donors, board members, and community leaders, about the feasability of a giving campaign of the following characteristics:

- [Your campaign details here]

Ask the interviewee their name and role.

Ask follow-up questions to the interviewee's responses.