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In my experience you kind of just have to lower your standards. i.e. if your system prompt is followed 90% of the time that still a win vs not using one.
by sebzim4500 3y ago
In my experience you kind of just have to lower your standards. i.e. if your system prompt is followed 90% of the time that still a win vs not using one.
- chalsprhebaodu 3y agoI would be happy with 10%. I imagine my problem is using ChatGPT with GPT4 rather than the api. I have had a custom prompt with a mix of various requests listed below, worded many different ways, different combinations, etc. and ChatGPT will happily ignore most of them. - Don’t apologize. - Don’t make changes to the (code, draft, etc) that are not requested. - If I question something about your response to a prompt, don’t assume I am telling you you are wrong or asking you to re-answer. Explain. - Don’t conclude every response with a paragraph reiterating all that was said. - Don’t give a lengthy disclaimer that you’re an AI or a response may be incomplete or may not cover every edge case. If you have to include a disclaimer, just say “the usual disclaimer applies”. Many more little things I can’t recall at the moment. I gave up and removed the custom prompt. It made no difference.
- fzzzy 3y agoYou may get better results if you phrase all requests positively instead of using "don't". You even have a double negative in your second example.
- chalsprhebaodu 3y agoThose weren’t the verbatim instructions, and as mentioned, I tried phrasing them many different ways. That said, I don’t recall necessarily trying to phrase every instruction positively, so I’ll try that. Thank you!