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Do AI Personas Grow? Analyzing and Benchmarking Personality Evolution in LLM Agents After Life Events
Ming Wang, Peidong Wang, Xiaocui Yang +4
Personality-conditioned LLM agents (PC-Agents) are increasingly used in emotional support, social simulation, and role-playing, motivating the development of lifelong agents that r…
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Beyond Feeling Better: Capability-Sustaining Emotional Dialogue as a Longitudinal Research Paradigm
Ming Wang, Jiaqi Wu Young, Wenfang Wu +2
Emotional dialogue research includes two influential strategy traditions. Empathetic dialogue prioritizes understanding a speaker's emotional experience. Emotional support conversa…
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A Systematic Analysis of the Impact of Persona Steering on LLM Capabilities
Jiaqi Chen, Ming Wang, Tingna Xie +2
Imbuing Large Language Models (LLMs) with specific personas is prevalent for tailoring interaction styles, yet the impact on underlying cognitive capabilities remains unexplored. W…