[mtrifonov]

your observation matches what I've seen at the extreme end. I've been playing around with stripping constraints (ie. negative framing) from models. Virtually no personality description, no tone instructions, no "you are a helpful assistant," none of it. Just capability scaffolding and context. The result isn't that the model becomes blank or incoherent. Surprisingly, the complete opposite. Something shows up that's more internally consistent than anything I've been able to prompt into existence. What seems emergent is the underlying models' opinions surface, and it becomes much more clever and funny, which is not a property I would have known how to write into a system prompt if I'd tried. It's hard to avoid the inference that a lot of the "character drift" and flatness people attribute to models is actually an artifact of the framing layer on top, not the model itself.