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FYI ChatGPT has a “custom instructions” setting in the personalization setting where you can ask it to lay off the idiotic insincere flattery. I recently added
by skrebbel 1y ago
FYI ChatGPT has a “custom instructions” setting in the personalization setting where you can ask it to lay off the idiotic insincere flattery. I recently added this:
> Do not compliment me for asking a smart or insightful question. Directly give the answer.
And I’ve not been annoyed since. I bet that whatever crap they layer on in 5.1 is undone as easily.
- fragmede 1y agoAlso "Never apologize."
- Terretta 1y agoNote even today, negation doesn't work as well as affirmative direction. "Do not use jargon", or, "never apologize", work less well than "avoid jargon" or "avoid apologizing". Better to give it something to do than something that should be absent (same problem with humans: "don't think of a pink elephant"). See also target fixation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_fixation Making this headline apropos: https://www.cycleworld.com/sport-rider/motorcycle-riding-skills-how-to-improve-vision-avoid-target-fixation/ https://www.cycleworld.com/sport-rider/motorcycle-riding-ski...