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Teaching / Updated 12 Oct 2026

Related event or period: ARTG3400 classroom activity · 2026

From research to the classroom: the Agent Personality Playground

Students in ARTG3400: Designing Talking Machines explored how different personalities change the experience of an AI agent.

In Smit Desai’s Designing Talking Machines course, students used CHAI Lab’s Agent Personality Playground to build agents with different personalities and roles, including planning, wellness, customer support, and advice-seeking. The activity brought research from Vibe Check into the classroom, opening discussion about why the same personality can feel helpful in one context and excessive in another.

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