[utopiah]

Putting a hat on a tablet has not in fact "instilled a unique personality". If that's what kid are taught I worry how they'll grow up.

I suggest checking Arvind Narayanan's tinkering with his own children. That being said not every parent is a Princeton professor working on AI so tread with caution.

Also on a pragmatic front if you want to tinker on the domain something potentially easy to setup yet relatively open https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

[kukanani]

The personality also comes from the system prompt, but I’ll grant you, it’s pretty minor.

I’m looking forward to a future where everyone could have their own personality model that is actually fine tuned at the weight level. Plus if we come up with better ways to do lifelong learning, personality could emerge from the robot’s experiences

[stavros]

If you use a Voice PE, I made a server so you can use it without Home Assistant:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/havpe-server

It'll just send the recognized speech to your own API endpoint, and speak whatever is returned.