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by tlongwell-block 10 days ago
The screenshot is totally scripted. It’s from a video capture, which involves a few moving parts that are difficult to choreograph live with multiple humans and agents. You can see the PR for the scripted demo in the repo.

I wouldn't underestimate whimsy as a way to make fundamentally strange things feel intuitive. Bots are managed by people or orgs and can have different capabilities and authorization, so names and images are convenient shorthand for humans to distinguish these instances from one another. Whether or not you make them cutesy is entirely up to you.