Starlight, you're making trouble and confusion for yourself with this artificial distinction between "hot" peppers and "sweet" peppers. It isn't real.
ALL peppers are of the genus Capsicum, so named because they ALL produce capsaicin, the heat juice. Some produce more and some produce less -- how much depends on growing conditions and the fickle will of the fickle garden gnom .. gods.
And no, heat doesn't "leak" between plants, nor is it infectious.
Just plant them where you want them and watch out for cross-pollination in last year's seeds. (Sometimes that can't be detected until pods.)
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Stupidity got us into this mess. Why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers
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