Personality
How this AI agent writes, what it does when it doesn't know, and when it hands over to a person.
Where this is
Brand → (your brand) → Vex → Personality. This screen is about this one AI agent and nothing else: what it is called, whether it is switched on, how it writes, what it does when it cannot answer, and when it passes the visitor to a person. It has four tabs — General, Answers, Agent Handoff and Danger Zone — and one Save button that covers all of them. The permission is Vex.
General
- Name — what this AI agent is called in your dashboard. Visitors never see it.
- Enable this agent — the on/off switch. While it is off, the agent does not respond to visitors at all.
- AI Models — the Primary Model and the Fast Model behind this agent. Yaplet chooses and maintains them; they are shown for information and cannot be changed.
Answers
- Emoji Usage — the AI uses emojis by default to keep the tone friendly. Tick Disable emojis in AI responses for a more formal voice.
- Answer instructions — extra instructions attached to every AI prompt. Use it for tone, house rules, or facts the agent should always have to hand, for example: "Always greet users by name. Never discuss competitor products. Our return policy is 30 days."
When the AI doesn't know the answer
Choose what happens when the agent finds nothing relevant in this brand's knowledge:
| Option | What happens |
|---|---|
| Politely decline (recommended) | The agent tells the visitor it has no information on that topic. It does not guess and does not invent an answer. |
| Offer to connect with a human | If a human agent is online, it asks whether the visitor would like to be connected and waits for a Yes or No. If nobody is available, it politely declines instead. |
Either way, the agent writes a natural sentence in the visitor's own language rather than sending a fixed template.
Agent Handoff
- Automatic Agent Handoff — the master switch for passing a conversation to a person. With it on, visitors can ask for a human and the Offer to connect with a human option above becomes available. Nobody is ever transferred silently: the visitor confirms with a Yes/No prompt first.
- The handoff line — what the visitor sees immediately before being connected — is one of Yaplet's own sentences, said in whatever language the visitor is reading, so a German visitor gets it in German without you writing anything. See Widget Languages.
- Show 'Talk to Support' Button After — how many messages a visitor must send within five minutes before the "Talk to the support team" button appears, so that it does not show up too early. The default is 6.
Usage limits
How many answers this AI agent gives one person in 24 hours is a brand setting, not a personality one — the same numbers cap the phone agent too — so it lives on Brand → Brand settings → Usage limits (permission Brands). The Answers tab links straight there. What the caps are and what happens when a visitor hits one is described on Brand settings.
Danger Zone
Your knowledge is not affected. Knowledge bases, documentation, files, website pages, Q&A entries and products all belong to the brand rather than to the agent, and stay exactly as they are. Add another AI agent later and it answers from the same material. There is no list of chatbots to go back to, so after deleting you land on the brand's Vex screen with the offer to add one.
Settings that live on the brand
Five settings describe the company and its content rather than one agent's personality, so they belong to the brand — and they apply to everything that answers for the brand: chat, phone calls, the inbox's suggested replies and AI social posts alike — except that phone calls ignore the search depth.
| Setting | Where it is |
|---|---|
| Company Name and Website URL | Brand → Brand settings → General |
| Usage limits | Brand → Brand settings → Usage limits |
| Knowledge Base Language | Set on each source individually, on Brand → Knowledge |
| Search depth (formerly Smart Answer Matching) | Brand → Brand settings → Advanced, as Search depth (Standard or Deep) |
| Privacy Protection (PII Masking) | Brand → Brand settings → Advanced, as Privacy masking |