AI Quick Tips 143: Save time by personalizing ChatGPT

ChatGPT was recently updated to include new customization options.  If you constantly find yourself entering the same persona, tone, and other settings for ChatGPT, it might be worth it for you to update some of these settings. 

You can find the customization options if you click on the icon in the upper right

And then select Customize ChatGPT from the menu:

This will give you all kinds of new options:

You can give it a baseline context, including -

• What to call you
• What you do
• What traits you want it to have
  • This is the most useful area for the majority of people that I’ve talked to.
  • Instead of prompting each time to “give a professional response” or “give step-by-step instructions to an audience of 5th graders”, you can describe those instructions here and then only add something to the prompt when you want to change this default behavior.
• Anything else it should know about you
  • The example lists things like your hobbies
  • (I haven’t found this very useful yet)

You can also expand the advanced section and choose which tools you want to have access to

You may want to turn off certain tools if ChatGPT hallucinates (i.e., makes up information) or you never have a use for something (i.e., you don’t use it for coding).  Turning off tools that you don’t use can improve the quality of the output you get.

Play around with the settings and see what works for you.