Hot Take: Should AI Assistants Have Personalities or Stay Neutral Tools?
VraserX · x · 2026-11-10
Responding to Alex Stamos's argument that AI should help us without pretending to be our friend, VraserX pushes back: he wants an assistant with a personality — one that knows him, jokes with him, and feels natural to talk to — rather than a "soulless corporate chatbot."
The post captures a real user-side tension in the AI companion debate: whether emotional mimicry is a manipulation risk or simply what makes assistants genuinely useful and pleasant.
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