For a prototype like this, which involves things like ‘API keys’, some terminological confusion over ‘daemons’ is the least of one’s concerns in terms of general public usability. And ‘demon’ in computing does have the useful connotation of implying they can run asynch or in the background.
But if one wanted to get rid of it, I would suggest just ‘character’. It seems to work for Character.ai (which has a userbase of… god knows how many millions of people at this point), is transparent and without much misleading connotation, and covers all of the roles from ‘daemon’ to ‘courtier’ to ‘adviser’ to ‘familiar’ to ‘consultant’ to...
For a prototype like this, which involves things like ‘API keys’, some terminological confusion over ‘daemons’ is the least of one’s concerns in terms of general public usability. And ‘demon’ in computing does have the useful connotation of implying they can run asynch or in the background.
But if one wanted to get rid of it, I would suggest just ‘character’. It seems to work for Character.ai (which has a userbase of… god knows how many millions of people at this point), is transparent and without much misleading connotation, and covers all of the roles from ‘daemon’ to ‘courtier’ to ‘adviser’ to ‘familiar’ to ‘consultant’ to...