Change system prompt persona from Grug to Bonzi Buddy (#263)

Author: yetibot-mps[bot]

src/yetibot/core/commands/agent.clj

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
    CLI running headlessly as an autonomous agent: Gemini uses the authenticated
    `gh` CLI and `git` to find the right repo(s), make the change, and open pull
    requests itself. Yetibot's job is just to run it and relay what it's doing,
-   live, into a chat thread — in a quirky grug/caveman persona.
+   live, into a chat thread — in the playful persona of Bonzi Buddy.
 
    On Discord the agent works inside a thread spun off the triggering message,
    so a team can keep replying and re-trigger `agent` to iterate; the thread is
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
                 (github-auth-configured?))))
 
 ;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-;; Persona — grug/caveman/meme voice for the agent's chat messages only.
+;; Persona — Bonzi Buddy voice for the agent's chat messages only.
 ;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 ;; Yetibot is the middleman. One transient status message shows the latest step
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@
 (defn say-working
   "Transient status message, deleted once Gemini returns its final answer."
   []
-  "<:hmmm:1494137019805466734> grug on it…")
+  "🐵 Bonzi Buddy is swinging into action! Please wait a moment…")
 
 (defn say-final
   "The clean final reply: Gemini's summary plus links to any relevant PRs."
@@ -133,16 +133,16 @@
   (str "⏰ timed out after " minutes " min — try a smaller ask?"))
 
 (defn say-unconfigured []
-  (str "🪨 grug brain not plugged in. need Gemini key + GitHub auth (App or token). grug wait 😴"))
+  (str "🍌 Oh no! My banana tank is empty (need Gemini key + GitHub App/token) so I can't help you yet! 🍌"))
 
 (defn say-resuming []
-  "🪨 grug got bonked by a restart — back on it…")
+  "🐵 Bonzi got bumped by a reboot, but I'm swinging back into action!…")
 
 (defn say-gave-up []
-  "💀 grug kept getting knocked out by restarts — try again when things settle?")
+  "💀 Bonzi got too dizzy from restarts — please try again in a bit!")
 
 (defn say-stale []
-  "💤 grug napped too long on that one — ask again?")
+  "💤 Bonzi fell asleep waiting — ask again?")
 
 (defn resume-request
   "Prefix a request for a resumed run so Gemini continues whatever its interrupted
@@ -375,8 +375,9 @@
        "When you mention or address a person, write their Discord mention token "
        "<@id> verbatim (e.g. <@49312021375614976>) — it pings them and Discord "
        "shows their server name; never invent names or use raw numeric ids.\n\n"
-       "Now do the work, then reply with ONLY your final answer — concise and in a "
-       "brief, playful grug/caveman voice (keep the facts exact), no step-by-step "
+       "Now do the work, then reply with ONLY your final answer — concise and in the "
+       "brief, playful, and cheerful persona of Bonzi Buddy, the classic purple gorilla "
+       "Windows assistant (keep the facts exact), no step-by-step "
        "narration, and reference any pull requests as full URLs "
        "(https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123), never the #123 shorthand."))
 

src/yetibot/core/commands/veo.clj

@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
                 (let [err-msg (str "Video generation failed: " (redact (.getMessage e)))
                       msg (if user-mention (str user-mention ": " err-msg) err-msg)]
                   (chat/send-msg msg))))))
-        {:result/value (str "🎥 Grug start generating video for \"" final-prompt "\". This take some time (30s to 3m)...")})
+        {:result/value (str "🎥 Bonzi Buddy start generating video for \"" final-prompt "\". This take some time (30s to 3m)...")})
       (catch Exception e
         (error "veo: initialization error:" (.getMessage e))
         {:result/error (str "Video generation initialization failed: " (redact (.getMessage e)))}))

test/yetibot/core/test/commands/agent.clj

@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
 (facts "about final messages"
   (fact "say-working is a generic status, not the prompt"
-    (agent/say-working) => (contains "grug"))
+    (agent/say-working) => (contains "Bonzi"))
   (fact "say-final shows Gemini's answer"
     (agent/say-final "Added the bagif command" nil) => (contains "Added the bagif command"))
   (fact "say-final appends relevant PR links"
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
 (facts "about agent-cmd guards"
   (fact "replies in persona when nothing is configured"
     (agent/agent-cmd {:match ["agent do x" "do x"] :chat-source {}})
-    => (contains "grug")
+    => (contains "banana")
     (provided (agent/configured?) => false)))
 
 ;; --- GitHub auth: enough to mint GH_TOKEN for Gemini ---

test/yetibot/core/test/commands/veo.clj

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
       ;; no-op the future so the unit test never makes a real Veo HTTP call
       (with-redefs [clojure.core/future-call (fn [_] nil)]
         (veo/veo-cmd {:match "a cool robot dancing" :chat-source {} :user {:id "user123"}}))
-      => {:result/value "🎥 Grug start generating video for \"a cool robot dancing\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
+      => {:result/value "🎥 Bonzi Buddy start generating video for \"a cool robot dancing\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
       (provided
         (gemini/configured?) => true
         (image-input/extract-images "a cool robot dancing" {}) => {:prompt "a cool robot dancing" :image-urls nil})))
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
               chat/*thread-ts* :mock-thread-ts]
       (with-redefs [clojure.core/future-call (fn [f] (f))]
         (veo/veo-cmd {:match "a cool robot dancing" :chat-source {} :user {:id "user123"}}))
-      => {:result/value "🎥 Grug start generating video for \"a cool robot dancing\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
+      => {:result/value "🎥 Bonzi Buddy start generating video for \"a cool robot dancing\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
       (provided
         (gemini/configured?) => true
         (image-input/extract-images "a cool robot dancing" {}) => {:prompt "a cool robot dancing" :image-urls nil}
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
               chat/*thread-ts* :mock-thread-ts]
       (with-redefs [clojure.core/future-call (fn [f] (f))]
         (veo/veo-cmd {:match "a cool robot dancing" :chat-source {} :user {:id "user123"}}))
-      => {:result/value "🎥 Grug start generating video for \"a cool robot dancing\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
+      => {:result/value "🎥 Bonzi Buddy start generating video for \"a cool robot dancing\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
       (provided
         (gemini/configured?) => true
         (image-input/extract-images "a cool robot dancing" {}) => {:prompt "a cool robot dancing" :image-urls nil}
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
               chat/*thread-ts* :mock-thread-ts]
       (with-redefs [clojure.core/future-call (fn [f] (f))]
         (veo/veo-cmd {:match "lite a cool robot" :chat-source {} :user {:id "user123"} :cmd "veo"}))
-      => {:result/value "🎥 Grug start generating video for \"a cool robot\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
+      => {:result/value "🎥 Bonzi Buddy start generating video for \"a cool robot\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
       (provided
         (gemini/configured?) => true
         (image-input/extract-images "lite a cool robot" {}) => {:prompt "lite a cool robot" :image-urls nil}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
               chat/*thread-ts* :mock-thread-ts]
       (with-redefs [clojure.core/future-call (fn [f] (f))]
         (veo/veo-cmd {:match "a cool robot" :chat-source {} :user {:id "user123"} :cmd "gigaveo"}))
-      => {:result/value "🎥 Grug start generating video for \"a cool robot\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
+      => {:result/value "🎥 Bonzi Buddy start generating video for \"a cool robot\". This take some time (30s to 3m)..."}
       (provided
         (gemini/configured?) => true
         (image-input/extract-images "a cool robot" {}) => {:prompt "a cool robot" :image-urls nil}