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Best Friends, Not Forever: Evaluating Long-Horizon Persona Collapse and Behavioral Drift in AI Companions
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Akshara Prabhakar, Yu Li +2
As AI companions increasingly mediate repeated social interaction, users may rely on a stable role and shared history, yet locally acceptable replies do not ensure that either pers…
cs.HC2026
Feedback by Design: Understanding and Overcoming User Feedback Barriers in Conversational Agents
Nikhil Sharma, Zheng Zhang, Daniel Lee +4
High-quality feedback is essential for effective human-AI interaction. It bridges knowledge gaps, corrects digressions, and shapes system behavior; both during interaction and thro…