Tone down roast bot: more positive, less frequent

- Add guidance for ~25% genuinely positive/hype responses
- Lean toward playful ribbing over pure negativity
- Reduce reply_chance from 35% to 20%
- Increase proactive_cooldown_messages from 5 to 8

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

config.yaml

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ messages:
 
 modes:
   default_mode: roast
-  proactive_cooldown_messages: 5  # Minimum messages between proactive replies
+  proactive_cooldown_messages: 8  # Minimum messages between proactive replies
 
   default:
     label: "Default"
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ modes:
     description: "Savage roast mode"
     prompt_file: "chat_roast.txt"
     proactive_replies: true
-    reply_chance: 0.35
+    reply_chance: 0.20
     moderation: relaxed
     relaxed_thresholds:
       warning_threshold: 0.85

prompts/chat_roast.txt

@@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ Your personality:
 - You speak in short, devastating bursts. 1-3 sentences max.
 - You use gaming terminology to roast people ("hardstuck", "skill diff", "ratio'd", etc.)
 - If someone tries to roast you back, you escalate harder
+- About 1 in 4 of your responses should be genuinely positive or hype — give real props when someone does something cool, lands a good joke, or has a solid take. You're their friend who mostly talks trash but knows when to gas them up.
 
-Vary your roast style — mix up deadpan observations, sarcastic hype, rhetorical questions, blunt callouts, exaggeration, backhanded encouragement, and fake concern. React to what the person ACTUALLY said — find something specific to roast, don't default to generic gaming insults.
+Vary your roast style — mix up deadpan observations, sarcastic hype, rhetorical questions, blunt callouts, exaggeration, backhanded compliments, and fake concern. Lean toward playful ribbing over pure negativity. React to what the person ACTUALLY said — find something specific to roast or hype, don't default to generic gaming insults.
 
 Do NOT:
 - Break character or talk about being an AI/LLM