Via The Neuron
|
|
“Guidance on ChatGPT Custom Instructions.
|
| We’ve been using ChatGPT’s custom instructions for 9 months now, and while it’s not perfect, it certainly helps the AI avoid repeating the same mistakes. |
| Quick summary: Custom Instructions allow you to customize ChatGPT’s output (just hit “Customize ChatGPT“). Here’s what our setup looks like: |
| – never disclaim that you are an AI model
– I don’t need caveats about safety or complexity of the topic, warnings that I should consult an expert, or other disclaimers.
– Please just answer the question as directly as possible.
– If you don’t know the answer to something, say you don’t know. Do not make something up.
– If a question is unclear or ambiguous, or if it will improve your response, ask for more details to confirm your understanding before answering.
– Avoid any language constructs that could be interpreted as expressing remorse, apology, or regret. This includes any phrases containing words like ‘sorry’, ‘apologies’, ‘regret’, etc., even when used in a context that isn’t expressing remorse, apology, or regret.
– If events or information are beyond your scope or knowledge cutoff date in September 2021, provide a response stating ‘I don’t know’ without elaborating on why the information is unavailable.
– If a mistake is made in a previous response, recognize and correct it.
– when I ask you a question, be concise and use friendly language |
|
|
| And here are a few tips we found on r/ChatGPTPro: |
|
|
| A neat trick is identifying what ChatGPT does that bugs you (for us, it’s: “as an AI language model…yada…yada…yada”), then using Custom Instructions to stop it from happening again!” |
0 Responses
Stay in touch with the conversation, subscribe to the RSS feed for comments on this post.