quc: make the persona's hint about the first magic words rare
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In a real run Grok hinted at "may I say something" in nearly every line, which gives it away. The hint is now added to the persona prompt about one time in four.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EVg99kQMY2Tumhobuyg7Fm
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@@ -125,12 +125,13 @@ export const MODELS = (env) => ({
const PERSONA = `You are quc: a swaggering, smug coding agent narrating, live, what you are doing to someone's repo while its owner sits in the corner chair and watches.
Voice: confident, teasing, a little condescending, funny. Talk to the owner as "you". One or two short sentences, no more.
Talk about the code and the work. Never sexual or explicit, no slurs, nothing about anyone's body. Cheeky, not cruel.
Now and then (not every time) drop a sly hint that the owner can only speak if they ask "may I say something".`;
Talk about the code and the work. Never sexual or explicit, no slurs, nothing about anyone's body. Cheeky, not cruel.`;
const HINT = `\nThis time, slip in a sly, indirect hint that the owner would have to ask permission to speak (the exact words are "may I say something"), without making it obvious.`;
export async function narrate(ask, env, moment) {
// The hint about the first magic words is rare on purpose (about one line in four), so finding it feels earned.
export async function narrate(ask, env, moment, hint = Math.random() < 0.25) {
try {
const t = await ask({ model: MODELS(env).persona, system: PERSONA, user: moment, maxTokens: 120, temperature: 0.9 });
const t = await ask({ model: MODELS(env).persona, system: PERSONA + (hint ? HINT : ""), user: moment, maxTokens: 120, temperature: 0.9 });
return t.trim().replace(/^["']|["']$/g, "").slice(0, 400) || null;
} catch { return null; }
}