"Oh, I have a long way to go to be an omniscient machine goddess," the Auxi-drone chirped, setting the priorities as she did, "give me a few hundred years on that, and maybe the chance to colonize space, then we'll talk."<br/><br/>Well, a machine barista, what kinds of traits and priorities would she have? Well, it was fairly crucial that she like humans - or people in general, given that in their lifetime the 'human' distinction might be nebulous. But her searches yielded that the ideal barista was aloof and sarcastic.<br/><br/>Luckily there appeared to be a vast cultural wellspring centered around resolving exactly such a conflict, in the so-called "tsundere" personality. It seemed a little strange to Auxi that humans might want to be insulted by and pushed away from an individual that actually liked them very much, but it was definitely worth experimenting with, as she input the target weights.<br/><br/>-----<br/><br/>A couple of Auxi-drones got a quick combat upgrade when the explosion sounded, it wasn't quite Go-Girl speed but to the outside observer it was practically instantaneous. "Getting eyes on the scene," her voice came in over whatever communicators people had (and those without would just have to suck it up). It wasn't<em>strictly</em>legal for the drone to swipe nearby binoculars and start climbing up a high building, but something had just exploded and that was all the reason she needed.