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There was a phase when ChatGPT would respond to everything I said, even in the same request with something like “..here’s the thing that you asked for, of cours
by sheepscreek 1y ago
There was a phase when ChatGPT would respond to everything I said, even in the same request with something like “..here’s the thing that you asked for, of course, without the fluff.” Or blah blah blah “straight to the point.” Or some such thinly veiled euphemisms. No matter how many times I told it not to talk like that, it didn’t work until I found that “core memory”.
- serbuvlad 1y agoChatGPT gets about 2-3x as smart the second you turn off memories.
- mtillman 1y agoThat’s funny. Your phrasing reminds me of a Zappa line “dumb all over and a little ugly on the side”.
- NikolaNovak 1y agoInteresting, that's been driving me absolutely bananas, especially in the voice chat where it takes up like 60% of the response. What kind of core memory did you turn off and how did you find it?
- sheepscreek 1y agoIt was something I instructed it once and forgot about. When I checked in the settings under “memories” I finally discovered the culprit and removed it. I’m not sure about voice chat, though - it’s equally frustrating for me. Often, it’s excessively verbose, repeating my question with unnecessary commentary that doesn’t contribute to the answer. I haven’t tried the personality tweaks they recently introduced in the settings - I wonder if those also affect voice chat, because that could be a potential solution.
- visarga 1y agoI hate that. ChatGPT makes itself sound smarter through compression and insider phrasing, and the output is harder to read without adding real clarity. That's why I can't use o3 or GPT-5. The performance layer gets in the way of the actual content, and it's not worth parsing through. I'm mostly avoiding it now.
- nostromo 1y agoI have the same issue. I often get annoyed with ChatGPT yammering on and on, so I repeatedly told it to cut to the chase and speak more succinctly. Now it just says "I'll get right to the point..." and then still yammers on and on unabated.
- a2dam 1y agoThis happened to me too. I eliminated it in text responses, but eventually figured out that there's a system prompt in voice mode that says to do this (more or less) regardless of any instructions you give to the contrary. Attempting to override it will just make it increasingly awkward and obvious.
- transcriptase 1y agoI went from using voice mode near-exclusively for brainstorming and planning out projects to giving up on voice altogether because of this very thing.
- prawn 1y agoI add "Terse, no commentary" to a request, which it will obey, but then immediately return to yammering in a follow-up message. However, this is in Incognito; maybe there's a setting when logged in.
- distances 1y agoYou can add a custom instruction in settings. That works pretty well, applies to all chats. Memory feature I of course disabled as soon as it was released so I don't know which takes precedence.
- phatfish 1y agoWith GPT5 there is a persona (I think, I forget what the call it) setting, I chose "Robot" and that shut it up pretty well.
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