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Adrian Tchaikovsky, Award-winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

CHAPTER

The Importance of Personality in Chatbots

Chatbots are very good at feigning acting like a person. They're very good at having an apparent personality even. And certainly you could almost certainly skew particular chatbots to be, to be, give you different outputs not merely in the sort of content they were giving you but in the apparent personality of the entity giving you it. I don't think it's been done, but I think it'd be quite easy to do. You could have this and people would get enormously invested in these completely artificial sort of fake personalities because that's what we do. It is really easy for us to put a human personality on a thing that has nothing there.

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