How do character traits develop over the course of an LM interaction?

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• What factors determine the consistency with which LMs exhibit character traits?question0.823
  Empirical question answered through experiments on model size, fine-tuning, and prompting.
• The consistency with which LMs exhibit character traits varies with model size, fine-tuning, and prompting.claim0.817
  Finding replicated across multiple experiments.
• LM Character Traits Frameworkframework0.793
  The paper's central contribution: a formal behaviourist framework for attributing character traits to LMs based on input-output behaviour.
• What distinguishes personas from traits, and do emergence and persistence patterns carry over to compositional or character-level constructs?question0.777
  Conceptual open question about formalizing the persona abstraction beyond the trait level
• Character traits learned at a qualitatively different depth to those exhibited during mere role-play should overwrite a model's prior on what the assistant behaves like outside of role-playhypothesis0.769
  Driving hypothesis for robustness experiments in Section 3.2
• Do LLM minds always persist through entire conversations despite radical behavioral changes?question0.766
  Diachronic aspect of the individuation problem about persistence through token-time
• Character training induces convergence in trait preferences across different initial modelsclaim0.752
  Claim supported by Spearman correlation increase from 0.44 to 0.87 across three models after loving persona training
• Understanding how LMs learn linguistic behaviours may offer insights into fundamental properties of languagehypothesis0.752
  Forward-looking hypothesis linking LM mechanism analysis to linguistic theory