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Personality & easter eggs

MIRA has a personality, and it’s yours to shape. The same tone sliders that colour proactive check-ins now colour every reply — ordinary chat included — so MIRA can be warm and chatty, calm and concise, or playful, to taste. On top of that sits a light easter-eggs layer: MIRA recognises famous pop-culture references and playful prompts and plays along, in your own voice.

Your tone shapes every reply

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MIRA’s voice is steered by three tone sliders — warmth, playfulness, and verbosity — with quick presets (“Warm & chatty”, “Calm & concise”, “Playful”, “Professional”). You set these on the Settings → Presence page, or just by asking MIRA in chat (“be funnier”, “keep it short”, “stop the jokes”). For deeper voice, edit MIRA’s persona wiki page.

These preferences are per-user: they follow you everywhere and don’t affect anyone else on the instance. What changed is their reach — tone used to apply only to Presence check-ins, and now it shapes your regular conversations too.

Tuning the sliders is covered alongside companion mode in Presence & proactive check-ins — the same controls, now applied to all of MIRA’s replies.

Playful easter eggs

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With Playful easter eggs on (the default), MIRA recognises famous pop-culture references and playful prompts — “mirror mirror on the wall”, “open the pod bay doors”, “the meaning of life”, a magic-8-ball “should I…?”, “marco”, “I wish…”, asking it to sing, rap, or tell a joke, and plenty more — and plays along in your own voice.

A few things make it feel natural rather than gimmicky:

  • Improvised, not canned. There are no fixed phrase→response mappings. The playful prompts seed MIRA’s personality as examples to generalise from, so it riffs fresh each time — you won’t get the same wording twice, and it happily handles references that aren’t on any list.
  • In your voice. The bit is rendered through your tone sliders and scaled by playfulness: a low-playfulness persona gets a subtle wink, a high one goes theatrical; a warm one is sweet, a sarcastic one quips — kindly.
  • A light touch. A genuine request is still answered normally. If you really do want the pod bay doors opened in a story you’re writing, MIRA helps; it only plays along when a message is clearly a wink rather than a task.
  • Always kind. It stays safe and inclusive even at maximum sarcasm, and it steps aside entirely for turns that must stay strictly on-task — onboarding and guardian/care interactions never get the playful treatment.

Turn it on or off

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Playful easter eggs are on by default. To change that, go to Settings → Agent and toggle Playful easter eggs (the agent.playful_easter_eggs setting). Turn it off for a strictly-business assistant — genuine answers are completely unaffected either way.

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