I don’t know if this is dumb to ask, but under PSM, when a system prompt defines multiple overlapping behavioral policies (global rules, context-specific rules, domain rules) that the model must dynamically route between — is that routing itself a persona trait, like the judgment of a skilled professional who knows which hat to wear when? Or is it something more procedural that PSM doesn’t capture?
These two hypotheses predict different failure modes: if routing is persona-mediated, failures look like bad judgment calls; if procedural, failures look like rules dropped regardless of character coherence.
I don’t know if this is dumb to ask, but under PSM, when a system prompt defines multiple overlapping behavioral policies (global rules, context-specific rules, domain rules) that the model must dynamically route between — is that routing itself a persona trait, like the judgment of a skilled professional who knows which hat to wear when? Or is it something more procedural that PSM doesn’t capture?
These two hypotheses predict different failure modes: if routing is persona-mediated, failures look like bad judgment calls; if procedural, failures look like rules dropped regardless of character coherence.