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What custom instructions do you use? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by adeoxymus@lemmy.world to c/chatgpt@lemmy.world

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Since recently OpenAI have introduced custom instructions where you can provide specific details and guidelines for chats (see https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt )

What have you used?

At first I added a lot, but I toned it down because I felt chatGPT would sometimes focus on that unnecessarily.

Now I only have my country and languages, and I have requested any answers to be in metric units. That last one is very useful when I ask for recipes, before it would talk about Fahrenheits and Ounces and what not. Now I at least get Celcius, milliliters and grams!

I also added that it should reply as an expert in the field with a casual tone. Which causes it to go "aah, the old ..... problem" whenever I ask it for debugging help :D

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[–] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I occasionally use this

use markdown to organize your thoughts
boilerplate is often unhelpful.
Off topic explanations are unhelpful, (unless its an opinion) don't explain unless asked.

i often find it flavors chatGPT's output beyond adding (unhelpful amounts of) markdown