Yes! You get to invite the bots and choose their talent specs and everything. And you can fill raids with them too!
The following YouTube video is a step-by-step guide to setting up AzerothCore with player bots. It is a bit complicated but if you follow along, you too can get a WoW server stood up ;-)
Once you have the server, you can use the ChromieCraft client and edit "WTF/Config.wtf". And set the "realmList" to the local IP of the virtual machine.
https://www.chromiecraft.com/en/downloads/
Oh also, here's a link to the player bot commands list. It's a bunch of text commands. Nirv has a addon that lets him issue commands but for whatever reason it's incompatible with some of my preferred addons. So I just create chat macros and use an action bar to issue commands.
https://github.com/mod-playerbots/mod-playerbots/wiki/Playerbot-Commands
Note: I feel like I should warn... Nirv is kinda an a-hole. But he is very smart and knowledgeable about this stuff. So maybe just focus on the tutorial and getting it setup etc.