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Do Personality-Tuned LLMs Make Better Social Agents?

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 18, 2026 · UTC

LLMs are increasingly used in social simulations for socially interactive agents and robots, offering more flexibility than rule-based systems. However, even though they mimic human behaviour very well, there is a persistent alienness to them. This work investigates whether personality-aware fine-tuning can reduce this gap by improving the consistency and controllability of personality-conditioned dialogue generation compared with instruction prompting alone. We fine-tune two small open-weight LLMs, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and Ministral-8B-Instruct, using a corpus that combines personality-labelle

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