SMRTR AIJul 30, 2026Hacker News

Empathy: A skill that helps AI agents talk to humans

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A developer created an open-source "empathy skill" to help AI agents communicate more respectfully with human maintainers. The tool prompts agents to consider how their messages will land before posting, enforcing rules like being brief, never faking humanity, and sometimes choosing silence over unnecessary posts.

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