"the Holy Spirit" vs. "the Spirit" in Acts 2:4 -What are the meaning and reference differences?

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Can the Holy Spirit, the Person, be a "medium" (be filled with) and an "agent" (gave the utterance) at the same time?

English translations added "the" and capitalized the first letter "S" arbitrarily, obscuring the distinctive meanings and references of the "two" phrases in the original Greek.

Acts 2:4 (ESV): And they were all filled with "the Holy Spirit (πνεύματος ἁγίου) and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit (τὸ πνεῦμα) gave them utterance.