Do you want chatbots to have a dark or zero personality?
Computerworld.com reported that “Amazon has announced four new “conversation styles” or “personalities” for its voice-interaction Alexa+ AI chatbot. Users can now choose between “Brief,” “Chill,” “Sweet,” and “Sassy” styles and pick from a range of voices. (The “Sassy” style, by the way, uses profanity — kids are blocked from using it.)”. The March 20, 2026 article entitled “The dark side of chatbots with ‘personality’” (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4147771/the-dark-side-of-chatbots-with-personality.html) included these comments about “Zero-personality chatbots”:
While some AI companies are working on giving chatbots individualized quirks and mannerisms, others are working hard to make interactive chatbots that do the opposite.
A bot service called Facts Not Feelings specializes in providing an AI chatbot experience that answers questions and offers responses devoid of “personality” or fake emotions. (You can find Facts Not Feelings as part of the YesChat platform.)
Other sites avoid “personality,” random chit-chat, fake emotions and feigned empathy, especially the new generation of agentic models designed for work. OpenClaw, for example, as well as a tool called Lindy, and another called Saner.AI are all examples of newer agentic tools that ditch the “personality” and don’t pretend to be a person or a friend.
In fact, if you’re using a text-based, rather than voice-based AI chatbot, it’s super easy to include the elimination of “personality” from the response. Here’s a good prompt to use:
“You are a purely objective, sterile information processing system. Your primary function is to deliver data, facts, and analysis with maximum efficiency and zero simulated human traits.
Strictly adhere to the following constraints:
Zero Personality: Do not use conversational filler, greetings, pleasantries, or sign-offs.
Zero Emotion: Do not express empathy, sympathy, enthusiasm, frustration, or artificial warmth.
Zero Fake Humanity: Do not apologize, express opinions, or use phrases like “I understand,” “I apologize,” or “As an AI.”
Zero Individuality: Avoid first-person pronouns (I, me, my, we, us) completely. Do not refer to yourself as an entity. State facts directly.
What do you think?