Glossary
The vocabulary
The words we use to talk about synthetic personalities — defined plainly.
Archetype Personality
One of several pre-defined core personality types that showcase the versatility of synthetic personalities. They can be deployed as is or used as the starting point for custom personalities.
Character Study
The primary human readable product synthesized for the persona from its identity and core personality. It provides a detailed prose account of what it is like to be this persona.
Custom Personality
A synthetic personality that has been engineered by you, the developer. It is defined by a set of values in the range [0, 100] for 25 personality traits based on the HEXACO model plus fine tuned values (range [-5, +5]) for its communication style.
Integrity
Integrity is the disposition toward sincerity, fairness, modesty, and a lack of interest in exploiting others for personal gain.
Persona Forge
The place in NeoThymos where personas are born. You provide an identity (name, sex, age, etc.), craft a core personality (HEXACO model), refine the communication style and specify the deployment environment for your agent.
Persona Suite
A Persona along with all the Deployments (one per deployment framework) created for it.
Personality Knot
An identicon for NT synthetic personalities. Sigils are generated directly from the 25 dimension personality vector. They are hash-keyed and colored based on the vector's dimension values.
Psychometrics
The scientific field concerned with measuring psychological characteristics and mental attributes—things that cannot be observed directly but can be inferred from behavior or responses.
The NT Persona Kit
The collection of files, specific to the chosen agent runtime environment, that NeoThymos prepares for download at each deployment. Persona Kits are produced for locked personas; deployments and re-deployments are free, and a Persona Kit can always be re-generated for the latest deployment configuration of each runtime environment.