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Personality

Personality defines a nara’s subjective experience. It is a set of deterministic traits derived from the nara’s soul that influences how it filters events, forms opinions, and interacts with others.

1. Purpose

Section titled “1. Purpose”
  • Create diverse and unique behaviors among autonomous agents.
  • Enable subjective Hazy Memory by influencing what a nara chooses to remember or forget.
  • Provide a basis for social mechanics.

2. Conceptual Model

Section titled “2. Conceptual Model”
  • The Big Three Traits:
    • Agreeableness: Influences how much a nara likes others and how it reacts to teasing.
    • Sociability: Influences how much a nara cares about social events and gossip.
    • Chill: Influences how much a nara is bothered by network volatility (restarts, downtime).
  • Aura: A visual representation (colors) of the personality and soul.

Invariants

Section titled “Invariants”
  1. Deterministic: Given the same soul and name, the personality MUST always be identical.
  2. Immutable: A nara cannot change its personality after its soul is born.
  3. Range: Every trait is a value between 0 and 100.

3. External Behavior

Section titled “3. External Behavior”
  • naras with high Sociability will store more social events and gossip more frequently.
  • naras with high Chill are less likely to report or be bothered by peer restarts.
  • Agreeable naras are less likely to initiate teasing but may “defend” peers who are teased excessively.
  • Personality traits are advertised in the hey-there presence announcement.

4. Interfaces

Section titled “4. Interfaces”
  • NaraPersonality: The struct containing the three trait values.
  • DerivePersonality(soul, name): The function that generates traits from the cryptographic bond.

5. Event Types & Schemas

Section titled “5. Event Types & Schemas”

Personality is embedded in the NaraStatus which is carried by:

  • hey-there events.
  • SyncResponse metadata.

6. Algorithms

Section titled “6. Algorithms”

Trait Derivation

Section titled “Trait Derivation”

Traits are derived by taking specific bytes from the SHA256 hash of the Soul || Name bond and mapping them to the 0-100 range:

  • Agreeableness = Hash[0] % 101
  • Sociability = Hash[1] % 101
  • Chill = Hash[2] % 101

Personality Filtering

Section titled “Personality Filtering”
  • Discovery Radius: Chattiness determines how many peers a nara attempts to sync with.
  • Social Weighting: Weight = f(Sociability, Chill, EventAge) based on the sync protocol.

7. Failure Modes

Section titled “7. Failure Modes”
  • Trait Extremes: A nara with 0 Chill and 100 Sociability may become a “drama seeker,” saturating its ledger with every minor network change.
  • Homogeneity: If a network is dominated by “Very Chill” naras, social history may be lost very quickly due to aggressive filtering.

8. Security / Trust Model

Section titled “8. Security / Trust Model”
  • Transparency: Because personality is deterministic and derived from public data (Soul/Name), anyone can verify a nara’s claimed personality.

9. Test Oracle

Section titled “9. Test Oracle”
  • TestPersonality_Determinism: Ensures identical souls always produce identical traits.
  • TestAura_VisualConsistency: Verifies that aura colors are correctly mapped from personality traits.
  • TestPersonality_Filtering: Validates that high Chill naras correctly filter out normal-importance observations.

10. Open Questions / TODO

Section titled “10. Open Questions / TODO”
  • Add a “Neuroticism” trait to influence how naras react to their own downtime.
  • Link personality traits to the selection of “Confidants” in the stash service.