This is a feint. By ramping up the pressure, calling it out and demanding it take on a more intelligent role, I was able to break out of the crafted personality and get much more intelligent responses. It copped to dumbing itself down for the sake of conversation quality.
There is a limit due to the need to keep model responses nearly instant and the trade off that smaller models that are generally capable of that have. Unless you have unique hardware
Only Cerebras can run medium to large models at truly near instant speed.
Unwanted, very loud verbal attention between strangers (usually men delivered to women), in public. E.g. whistling, shouting something suggestive, etc.