There are a few ways you can achieve this, or rather elements that you must think about when writing Hihat patterns. Also what do you mean by "uplifting" ?

1. Hat patterns by themselves are difficult to make interesting in pattern based domains. There are only so many places you can stick a HH

2. Have a listen to some real drummers to discover what is meant by "swing" I recommend www.drummerworld.com take a look at the videos...

3. Swing is highly important to the groove. Use slight velocity variations to create human feel.

4. remember that open hats cut off closed hats and vica versa.

5. thin hats sound slightly faster (to my ears) than fatter hats.

6. Also hats sounds very rarely exist in a vacuum, they are designed to go with other elements of the drum kit, particularly the snare and snare ghost notes

hope this helps.

By the way - you've put a hard question. have a listen to your fav tunes and try to emulate.