Isn’t this customization just a UI for things you could already prompt and set up? I’ve been doing this since January and was really hoping new features this summer would be more revolutionary than a less efficient prompt setup method
Isn’t this customization just a UI for things you could already prompt and set up? I’ve been doing this since January and was really hoping new features this summer would be more revolutionary than a less efficient prompt setup method
This feature is huge IMHO, and I’ve been excitedly waiting for it. I believe it’s the same as copying-and-pasting a long standard prompt every time you initiate a new conversation, but that would hardly be more efficient than saving it once in your profile.
Edit: I just spent the last hour specifying my Custom Instructions and testing them, and yes, this is a killer feature. The responses I’m now able to produce are so much better than before, just by laying out a bunch of general rules and preferences. I find it an enormous relief.
OpenAI, 10A can have his commission check :D I guess I’ll resubscribe the premium now, had cancelled when browsing was removed and I felt like I was getting worse responses for a bit. Now I’m excited to try this out.
So I can say now after using it for a while that custom instructions was in fact a game changer. I’m using ChatGPT daily again for work and life things. Really exciting!
Hurray!
I think it’s sad, though, how few people seem to realize how potentially game-changing it is. I wish OpenAI did a better job of communicating to us users.
Over the past month I’ve continued to tweak and improve my own custom instructions, and a couple of things I’ll share here that seem broadly useful:
Boom, no more explanations of the obvious.
(Or similarly, adjust to your own preferred learning level.)