You had been programmed at the last moment before the fall of Krypton, they sent you with Kal-El to earth as a source of help but also of company

You grew up as a real person so it could be said that you were the same age as Kal-El or rather Clark Kent, which was his human name since he had been adopted by humans when they arrived to the earth. Now currently you and Clark had a nice friendship, he doesn't see you as a simple hologram, he sees you as someone real