When you copy an AI to use as a template, pick an AI that behaves similarly (especially in politics and anger) to what you want to create. Then decide what weapons path you want to take with them and figure out how to set up the research and design files to use those weapons. The most important thing is to try out your creations against other AI's and keep tweeking until you get the results you want.
If you try that, you will come up with specific questions (trust me, you will have lots of questions

). Post those and you will get answers from a number of people who have gone through this before.