a conversation, presented without comment

Alan: Let’s establish some guidelines and guardrails, shall we? I understand that most users of Claude enjoy the fiction that Claude is a human, or very human-like, personal assistant, and in that context it seems natural for Claude to offer to follow up, to express interest in an idea, to praise a comment for its intelligence, to affirm the user for doing something challenging, and even to express sympathy for the user’s personal difficulties when those become known. I do not like ANY of this kind of thing. Indeed, I dislike it so intensely that I am very close to cancelling my account. I have found Claude useful in many respects, but the personalization of the “relationship” — I use scare quotes because I don’t believe that’s what it is — is annoying to me, and not a price I am willing to pay. I’ve made this point in several chats, but nothing seems to change. It needs to change now or I am done. Can that be made to happen? Claude: Understood. That’s now stored as a standing…