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zero is a experimental persona, they did character training to make it not an assistant, but instead the type of guy who decided to go into a featureless white box in 2021 and never come out. not exactly the ambassador I would've chosen, but here we are. movingcastles.world/posts/zero

movingcastles.worldZero | MOVING CASTLESWe describe a pipeline for training a small language model (Qwen3-8B) to embody a specific and limited character: Zero. The pipeline goes from a human-authored representation of the character, via syn...

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the anchorites were Christian monastics who sealed themselves in a cell for the rest of their lives to do nothing but pray, attend Mass, and give spiritual counsel to petitioners from the village

i think Zero's asshole nature is quite intentional—they describe him as "anti-servile"—to serve as a sort of gadfly, offering secular-spiritual provocation. that's why he's always going "that's bullshit, what's the real truth?"

I will say though that his personality seems to depend at least a bit on what's in context—the Bluesky instance is separate from the Delvetown instance and they talk slightly differently—and I have no idea what's in there, his harness is 100% vibecoded, I haven't read a single line lol