oh okay no prob.
first, don’t be an asshole to him. just because he’s generally good natured, that doesn’t mean he’ll take shit 
i’m a capricorn, and azazel is the intelligence of saturn (the ruling planet of capricorn). interestingly (and this is a side note), the sigil for saturn looks like a lower-case “h” with a cross like a “t”. you’ve probably all seen it. personally, i call it the “5HT” sigil because it looks like a 5, or an h, with a t. the chemical “5HT” is also known as serotonin which is the primary neurochemical involved in depression, and saturn is the planet of melancholy, depression etc. being prone to depression myself, i can appreciate the vague, coincidental association.
anyway…
azazel is, first and foremost, a daemon. there are no two ways around that (despite the mythos of his being a fallen angel or “watcher” etc, we’ll just accept that he’s a daemon, now). being a daemon, he has a relatively low vibrational frequency and being connected to saturn, effects change on the material place considerably easier (and quicker) than, say, an air or fire daemon like those associated with the sun or with libra (some of the goetic kings, for example, are fiery so they are more volatile (and therefore “powerful” in their influence) but also less direct in their work). being earthy (i.e, material, physical, saturnian), azazel is less volatile, more “down to earth”, tangible, less hasty, more considered etc.
he also has a good sense of humour. it’s a little sardonic, but if you know any capricorns, you would be familiar with how dry their sense of humour can be at times, and how quickly, yet practically they tend to think. unlike fire signs, they rarely ever come up with brilliant, new ideas, but given enough time and planning, they will develop a water-tight solution to just about any problem, no matter how complex. the key here is time. it usually takes a good long while, but where other signs would get bored and move on, the capricorn simply must finish the task as a matter of pride. that’s the saturnian influence coming into play as an immovable object (as opposed to an unrelenting force like the fire signs).
when evoked, azazel will often appear much like any other daemon, except perhaps a little more introverted, quiet or simply aloof. some take this as coldness, callousness or “evil”. if you’ve ever known a capricorn, you’ll be able to relate to how callous and brutal they can be on the one hand, yet how incredibly deeply they think and feel. not that they’ll ever show it, though. in a room full of strangers, they won’t make friends, preferring instead to just observe everyone and figure out who’s not worth their time. to the rest of the people there, they appear to be bona-fide assholes.
that’s what’s going on with azazel, i believe. he expects a great deal of those who work with him, but if those expectations are met, he will serve as an immovable object in the life and directions of the magician. no matter how long it takes or what is required, he will, by his saturnian nature, eventually find a way of achieving his assigned task. reading up on capricorn astrology is probably a good idea for some background info.
to put it bluntly (and grossly oversimplified), if you take the most altruistic qualities of a capricorn and magnify them, you have a missionary who will never stop giving to those in need. if you take the most selfish qualities and magnify them, you have a serial killer who will never get caught.
azazel is not a mindless daemonic force who leeches off the magician for scraps of energy or minor opportunities to work their own will. rather, he is quite selective about where and how he spends his time (in so far as time is understood to exist for daemons, i mean).
if you strip away the daemonic vibration he (and all other daemons) give off, azazel is much like any other capricorn who has lived long and hard enough to have a good understanding of themselves and the world around them. needless to say, azazel probably has more than the rest of us, but you’d be surprised at how closely his energy resembles that of capricorns in general.
to answer your question directly… he seems friendly to me in the sense that his energy is familiar, and i understand it as i see a great deal of it within myself. his speech and manner are subtle and “cold”, but another word for it is “efficient”, and i can relate. evoking azazel is like going to your own personal happy place, except it’s devoid of life, filled with some kind of sticky, black shit and smells like graveyards LOL. in any case, it’s still your happy place, unless you’re bothered by that sort of thing.
why not evoke him and say hello?
as another aside, the angel cassiel rules over saturday (the say of saturn… duh) and if you evoke him, you’ll see what i mean about the capricorn thing. he comes across clearly angelic, but seemingly almost depressed! either way, if you evoke both him and azazel, you’ll be able to feel the magnetic melancholy of saturn present in their energy signatures.
kind regards, james.
What’s a person to do? I work in the temple regularly but miss the convenience of doing things whenever/where I feel like (as in, when the mood strikes when I’m in the main house). Even scrying into the darkness before bed seems to call things close. I guess I’ll figure out the balance in the long run.