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The craft, in long form
How grounded, portable synthetic personalities are built — the model, the pipeline, and the kit that carries them.
General
NeoThymos - Home for Synthetic Personalities
A guide to the NeoThymos system and the psychology behind synthetic personalities.
Synthetic Personalities
The NeoThymos primer on Synthetic Personalities - Symbolically defined personas, grounded in human psychology and portable across many of the frameworks that our agents run on today.
The Vocabulary of Synthetic Personalities
A collection of terms used inside of NeoThymos as well as terminology related to the psychology of personality, emotion and moral reasoning.
Psychological Grounding - Foundational Models
An overview of the foundational psychometric models and psychological theories that provide the scientific ground on which the NeoThymos architecture and design rest.
Psychological Foundations: Modeling Personality
Research into human psychology has produced various models of personality. This article discusses the HEXACO model of personality which lies at the core of the system, defining what we mean by a NeoThymos as it defines personas. of emotion that currently contribute to the model of emotion used within NeoThymos.
Why Use Portraits In NeoThymos?
Portraits serve a useful purpose. They are visual index keys into your gallery and library, not direct claims about a persona's character. Developers who prefer abstraction can substitute the personality knot sigil in settings.
The Dark Spectrum of Personality
The dark spectrum of personality identifies psychologically plausible yet socially problematic personality types. NeoThymos employs a toxic personality detector to surface and label user designed personalities that may be problematic.
Should We Anthropomorphize Our Machines?
Arguements for and against anthropomorphizing machines are both well founded but miss the common ground. As capabilities of AI backed systems grow the arguements converge, we will almost certainly want and need engineered, deterministic, synthetic personalities.
NT Archetype Personalities
NT Archetype Personalities are pre-defined synthetic personality types that showcase the versatility of synthetic personalities in NeoThymos.
The NT Persona Kit
The NT Persona Kit is the tangible deliverable output of the NeoThymos system. It includes files intended to be used to configure a specific agentic runtime environment. It also includes files intended largely for human (the developer's) consumption like the Character Study PDF and a fanciful character portrait.
Design & Architecture
Psychological Foundations: Modeling Emotion
Research into human psychology has produced various models of emotion. This article summarizes the two models of emotion that contribute to the internal design of NeoThymos today.
Psychological Foundations: Modeling Morality
Research into human psychology has produced various models of emotion. This article summarizes the two models of emotion that currently contribute to the model of emotion used within NeoThymos.
NeoThymos - Future Direction
The planned future direction of NeoThymos development
Core Personality & The HEXACO Personality Model
The model of Personality used in NeoThymos. A summary is available on every screen within the application by clicking the NT logo at the top left.
Morality As Cooperation: Theoretical Foundations
MAC is a scientifically rigorous framework that defines morality as a collection of biological and cultural solutions to distinct, recurring problems of cooperation that have shaped human social life over evolutionary history.
The Future Direction of NeoThymos
The Future Direction of NeoThymos