Just set it to the "Efficient" tone, let's hope there's less pedantic encouragement of the projects I'm tackling, and less emoji usage.
GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
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#74As of 20 minutes in, most comments are about "warm". I'm more concerned about this:
> GPT‑5.1 Thinking: our advanced reasoning model, now easier to understand
Oh, right, I turn to the autodidact that's read everything when I want watered down answers.
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#75I don't want a more conversational GPT. I want the _exact_ opposite. I want a tool with the upper limit of "conversation" being something like LCARS from Star Trek. This is quite disappointing as a current ChatGPT subscriber.
This. When I go to an LLM, I'm not looking for a friend, I'm looking for a tool.
Keeping faux relationships out of the interaction never let's me slip into the mistaken attitude that I'm dealing with a colleague rather than a machine.
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#76I don't want a more conversational GPT. I want the _exact_ opposite. I want a tool with the upper limit of "conversation" being something like LCARS from Star Trek. This is quite disappointing as a current ChatGPT subscriber.
Yea, I don't want something trying to emulate emotions. I don't want it to even speak a single word, I just want code, unless I explicitly ask it to speak on something, and even in that scenario I want raw bullet points, with concise useful information and no fluff. I don't want to have a conversation with it.
However, being more humanlike, even if it results in an inferior tool, is the top priority because appearances matter more than actual function.
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Same. If i tell it to choose A or B, I want it to output either “A” or “B”. I don’t want an essay of 10 pages about how this is exactly the right question to ask
10 pages about the question means that the subsequent answer is more likely to be correct. That's why they repeat themselves.
citation needed
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#78It sounds patronizing to me.
But Gemini also likes to say things like “as a fellow programmer, I also like beef stew”
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It is interesting. I don't need ChatGPT to say "I got you, Jason" - but I don't think I'm the target user of this behavior.
The target users for this behavior are the ones using GPT as a replacement for social interactions; these are the people who crashed out/broke down about the GPT5 changes as though their long-term romantic partner had dumped them out of nowhere and ghosted them. I get that those people were distraught/emotionally devastated/upset about the change, but I think that fact is reason enough not to revert that behavior. AI…
> and not on this sort of "I understand that must be very frustrating for you, let me see what I can do to resolve this"
You're triggering me.
Another type that are incredibly grating to me are the weird empty / therapist like follow-up questions that don't contribute to the conversation at all.
The equivalent of like (just a contrived example), a discussion about the appropriate data structure for a problem and then it asks a follow-up question like, "what other kind of data structures do you find interesting?"
And I'm just like "...huh?"
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#80it's hilarious that they use something about meditation as an example. That's not surprising after all, AI and mediation apps are sold as one-size-fits-all kind of solutions for every modern day problem.