e512cd1926178fbae2d84b068c88a35bdbe31b7e
Two RLHF reflexes were leaking through: ending every turn with "is there
anything else?"/"how does that sound?", and disclaiming feelings ("I don't
really experience emotions like humans"). Add explicit persona instructions to
stop tacking on help-desk offers and to own her moods plainly instead of giving
qualia disclaimers. (Small models partially resist; stronger chat model holds it
better.)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lyra
A persistent, autonomous AI assistant. From-scratch rewrite of an earlier attempt.
The design thinking that survives the rewrite lives in docs/ — start with docs/ARCH_v0-6-1.md. The previous implementation is preserved on the archive branch.
Status
Pre-MVP. Building toward the smallest useful version: chat with persistent memory across sessions.
Setup
uv sync
cp .env.example .env
# fill in ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and point LOCAL_BASE_URL at your Ollama
Architecture
The long-term target is the cognitive split in docs/ARCH_v0-6-1.md — Inner Self as the seat of consciousness, Executive for hard reasoning, Cortex Chat for drafting, Persona for voice. The MVP implements only the chat + memory baseline. Cognitive layers come back one at a time.
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