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0 pointschalsprhebaodu2y ago0 comments

I would be happy with 10%.

I imagine my problem is using ChatGPT with GPT4 rather than the api.

I have had a custom prompt with a mix of various requests listed below, worded many different ways, different combinations, etc. and ChatGPT will happily ignore most of them.

- Don’t apologize.

- Don’t make changes to the (code, draft, etc) that are not requested.

- If I question something about your response to a prompt, don’t assume I am telling you you are wrong or asking you to re-answer. Explain.

- Don’t conclude every response with a paragraph reiterating all that was said.

- Don’t give a lengthy disclaimer that you’re an AI or a response may be incomplete or may not cover every edge case. If you have to include a disclaimer, just say “the usual disclaimer applies”.

Many more little things I can’t recall at the moment. I gave up and removed the custom prompt. It made no difference.

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fzzzy2y ago· 1 in thread

You may get better results if you phrase all requests positively instead of using "don't". You even have a double negative in your second example.

chalsprhebaoduOP2y ago

Those weren’t the verbatim instructions, and as mentioned, I tried phrasing them many different ways. That said, I don’t recall necessarily trying to phrase every instruction positively, so I’ll try that. Thank you!

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