input: def shift_characters(s: str, k: int) -> str:
      """
      Given a string s and an integer k, shift each character in the string to the kth position ahead in a cyclic manner.
  
      For every character c in the string s, replace it with the character that is k positions after it in a cyclic way.
      Return the transformed string.
  
      Examples:
      >>> s = "dart", k = 3
      "tdar"
      >>> s = "aaa", k = 1
      "aaa"
  
      Constraints:
      1 <= s.length <= 100
      1 <= k <= 10^4
      s contains only lowercase English alphabet characters.
      """
output:     
      k = k % len(s)  # To handle cases where k is larger than the length of the string
      return s[-k:] + s[:-k]
  