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Custom instructions for ChatGPT
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Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#42It's a improvement, of course. However, people use ChatGPT for many subjects, not just one. For instance, I chat about code, product management, personal life and other things. Sometimes for different projects. The current UX is a bit limiting, IMHO. The ideal UX for me would allow me to choose or create a new custom instruction set for each conversation. I would like to be able to switch between them easily, and to…
I assumed it was one custom instruction set per conversation. Is it really a global setting? (I assume you have ChatGPT plus and so have been granted access to this feature?)
Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
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Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#44The biggest weakness of the ChatGPT Webapp is the inability to tinker with the system prompt, which is what can really control how ChatGPT behaves and can correct a large number of undesired behaviors people keep complaining about. This is most likely using system prompt engineering on the backend, so hopefully people will also realize that prompt engineering is not a meme by finally giving them a mechanism to custom…
I've heard people describe "prompt engineering" as just people who know how to craft prompts well. I hope we converge on a better definition than that soon. Maybe the name can change too.
prompt-fu, like Google-fu? I have a friend who’s gotten very good at prompt-fu.
Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#45It's a improvement, of course. However, people use ChatGPT for many subjects, not just one. For instance, I chat about code, product management, personal life and other things. Sometimes for different projects. The current UX is a bit limiting, IMHO. The ideal UX for me would allow me to choose or create a new custom instruction set for each conversation. I would like to be able to switch between them easily, and to…
I mentioned this to Logan (DevRel) earlier [1] in response to the announcement. It'd be better to be able to have a number of profiles that you can switch between. Maybe if we make some noise they'll improve on this. We've seen they care about what people say, hence the legacy models being extended until 2024.
Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#46Hmm I don't see a real leap in innovation with this, it's just saving state across all chats.
Whenever I want code generation I just type "React and Tailwind" or "Django".
Whenever I want code optimization I paste the code in and it figures out what language I'm using 99% of the time.
If they want to save state they should go a level up and allow collaboration across chats and save those states.
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#47This is definitely cool, but it seems to 'forget' about the prompt after a few back and forths. Is this because the prompt is placed before the conversation in its memory? It doesn't seem to be continuously reminded of it.
Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#48It's a improvement, of course. However, people use ChatGPT for many subjects, not just one. For instance, I chat about code, product management, personal life and other things. Sometimes for different projects. The current UX is a bit limiting, IMHO. The ideal UX for me would allow me to choose or create a new custom instruction set for each conversation. I would like to be able to switch between them easily, and to…
I assumed it was one custom instruction set per conversation. Is it really a global setting? (I assume you have ChatGPT plus and so have been granted access to this feature?)
It is global, once you set it up it applies to all new conversations. You are given two prompts (and the ability to toggle them on/off):
* What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses? * How would you like ChatGPT to respond?
Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#49Hmm I don't see a real leap in innovation with this, it's just saving state across all chats. Whenever I want code generation I just type "React and Tailwind" or "Django". Whenever I want code optimization I paste the code in and it figures out what language I'm using 99% of the time. If they want to save state they should go a level up and allow collaboration across chats and save those states.
I mean, they can't all be mind blowing releases that change everything we know about interacting with computer science... but this still seems like a useful feature.
Re: Custom instructions for ChatGPT
#50It's a improvement, of course. However, people use ChatGPT for many subjects, not just one. For instance, I chat about code, product management, personal life and other things. Sometimes for different projects. The current UX is a bit limiting, IMHO. The ideal UX for me would allow me to choose or create a new custom instruction set for each conversation. I would like to be able to switch between them easily, and to…
I assumed it was one custom instruction set per conversation. Is it really a global setting? (I assume you have ChatGPT plus and so have been granted access to this feature?)
No. It's a global config.
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