I’m aware of those references, but in popular culture the strongest association of the word, by far, is to evil spirits that trick or tempt humans into doing evil. And the context of your program further encourages that interpretation because “giving advice” and “prompting humans” are both iconic actions for evil-spirit-demons to perform.
Even for people who understand your intended references, that won’t prevent them from thinking about the evil-spirit association and having bad vibes. (Nor will it prevent any future detractors from using the association in their memes.)
And I suspect many ordinary people won’t get your intended references. Computer daemons aren’t something the typical computer-user ever encounters personally, and I couldn’t point to any appearance of Greek daimons in movies or video games.
I’m aware of those references, but in popular culture the strongest association of the word, by far, is to evil spirits that trick or tempt humans into doing evil. And the context of your program further encourages that interpretation because “giving advice” and “prompting humans” are both iconic actions for evil-spirit-demons to perform.
Even for people who understand your intended references, that won’t prevent them from thinking about the evil-spirit association and having bad vibes. (Nor will it prevent any future detractors from using the association in their memes.)
And I suspect many ordinary people won’t get your intended references. Computer daemons aren’t something the typical computer-user ever encounters personally, and I couldn’t point to any appearance of Greek daimons in movies or video games.
Being familiar with daemons in the computing context, I perceive the term as whimsical and fairly innocuous.