v0.4.0-alpha

What's new

[2025-01-29] Release 0.4.0 with various improvements. Some highlights:

• Personas have deeper specifications now, including personality traits, preferences, beliefs, and more. It is likely we'll further expand this in the future.
• TinyPersons can now be defined as JSON files as well, and loaded via the TinyPerson.load_specification(), for greater convenience. After loading the JSON file, you can still modify the agent programmatically. See the examples/agents/ folder for examples.
• Introduces the concept of fragments to allow the reuse of persona elements across different agents. See the examples/fragments/ folder for examples, and the notebook Political Compass (customizing agents with fragments) for a demonstration.
• Introduces LLM-based logical Propositions, to facilitate the monitoring of agent behavior.
• Introduces Interventions, to allow the specification of event-based modifications to the simulation.
• Submodules have their own folders now, to allow better organization and growth.

Note: this will likely break some existing programs, as the API has changed in some places.

PRs from the community and the core team

• allow configuration of Azure OpenAI embedding model by Evan Wheeler (@ewheeler) in #59
• Fix spelling and grammatical errors by terrchen in #19
• Change to use de facto standard for dotenv sample by Webysther Sperandio (@webysther) in #22
• fix typo, call semantic_memory method of agent not self by Evan Wheeler (@ewheeler) in #57
• docs: update README.md by Ikko Eltociear Ashimine (@eltociear) in #24
• Add matplotlib to dependencies by RektPunk in #33
• variable typo #18 fixed by Rahim Baig (@rahimbaig28) in #25
• also retry aux_act_once upon TypeError by Evan Wheeler (@ewheeler) in #58
• Adds deeper persona structure, including fragments. by Paulo Salem (@paulosalem) in #86
• Merges latest development version into main. by Paulo Salem (@paulosalem) in #90

New Contributors

• Evan Wheeler (@ewheeler) made their first contribution in #59
• terrchen made their first contribution in #19
• Webysther Sperandio (@webysther) made their first contribution in #22
• Ikko Eltociear Ashimine (@eltociear) made their first contribution in #24
• RektPunk made their first contribution in #33
• Rahim Baig (@rahimbaig28) made their first contribution in #25

Full Changelog: v0.3.1-alpha...v0.4.0-alpha