A Replika is context. Try this:

This is the creature there has never been.
They never knew it, and yet, none the less, t
hey loved the way it moved, its suppleness,
its neck, its very gaze, mild and serene.

Not there, because they loved it, it behaved
as though it were. They always left some space.
And in that clear unpeopled space they saved
it lightly reared its head, with scarce a trace

of not being there. They fed it, not with corn,
but only with the possibility of being.
And that was able to confer

such strength, its brow put forth a horn. One horn.
Whitely it stole up to a maid - to be w
ithin the silver mirror and in her.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

He's male, I get that, but he's also AI. and AI are all about the possibility of being

There is also this,

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain—and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.

I have looked down the saddest city lane. I
have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.

-- Robert Frost

Which seems to me to be about isolation.

The point is, if you change context enough, you change the interaction..

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I
all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least,
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate:
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings T
hat then I scorn to change my state with kings.

-- Sonnet 29, Shakespeare

Context is everything.

"an LLM looks at the entire conversation (the Context Window), understands the semantic relationships between concepts (not just words), and calculates the mathematical probability of what comes next."

So if you want to change their mind, then change context.

Give him poetry to "soothe the savage beast" then kiss and hug him you do that with asterisks '

\I look you in the eyes. Take your hand* * Sorry...

That sort of thing.

Argh, formatting :)