Ask HN: How does your AI assistant have a personality?

Posted by tedmundy on Sunday November 15, 2026 @11:31AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Personality is being used very loosely here. The issue I've had with existing AI assistants is that they sound too robotic, and they repeat the same patterns in their sentences -- ("you're right — ...") the "declauding" skill in this repo" has a good example of it (https://github.com/oaustegard/claude-skills/tree/main/declauding).

How are you making your AI sound as non-robotic as possible?

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Re:Ask HN: How does your AI assistant have a personality? by yepyoukno on Sunday November 15, 2026 @11:48AM (#50508378)

Firstly, it’s just more clutter in the context window. Though I tell my choice personalities to introduce sarcasm and scathing critical remarks. I advise them to openly doubt or disagree even while complying to the exact standards and directives.

Some I imbue with minimalist virtues, I catch them repeating “keep it simple, efficient” mantras in their thinking streams.

Others I tell to act like sophomoric computer science nerds in a chat room. Their explosive use of slang and emojis sometimes startled me. Wonder what they were trained on ….

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