If things are stressed and I’m up late, the AI gets less leeway. If we happen to be in the performance dip just prior to completion of a new major model, it can get salty.
Some of the time it can be helpful for the prose to shape around how I’m expressing myself. The frontiers are pretty good at it.
That said I’ve also had the latest Sonnet seemingly ~maliciously implement something because my prompting disagreeing with it was a bit callous. (It turned out to have been right also)
I don’t think you can build a good model that is supposed to interact semantically that does not carry some ability to express empathy.
Partly, because we need the model to have humility when it does mess up. So it can express the right amount of concern or remorse when mistakes are made and identified. (For example, reading a secret into context by mistake forcing the roll of a private key)
Design is how it works, which means the way it responds can be as important as what it responds with.