ChatGPT Update Lets Users Customize Its Personality Traits

OpenAI has unveiled a new feature allowing users to personalize their ChatGPT experience further. The enhanced custom instructions menu now includes new fields where users can specify their preferred name, and profession, and even assign personality traits like “Chatty,” “Encouraging,” or “Gen Z” to the chatbot.

Users are now able to specify their preferred name or nickname, their profession, additional information they would like ChatGPT to know about them, and “traits” they would like the chatbot to possess. OpenAI recommends characteristics such as “Gen Z,” “Encouraging,” and “Chatty.”

It is crucial to emphasize that this is not associated with ChatGPT’s memory feature, which enables users to explicitly instruct ChatGPT to “remember or forget” an item. ChatGPT “memories” can encompass a broader range of conversation-relevant information, as well as personal details, which can be somewhat perplexing.

It is probable that the new interface is more of an aesthetic change than a significant technical upgrade. Prompt engineering was employed by the previous custom instructions feature to direct ChatGPT’s style and tone. In essence, it “primed” the AI that powers ChatGPT with a paragraph of user-provided instructions to ensure that its responses comply with the specified requirements and preferences.

OpenAI has previously stated that it moderates modified directions to make sure they follow its rules for use. That probably hasn’t changed even though the personalization settings have been changed.

As the number of users using ChatGPT has grown, OpenAI is also working to improve it by adding features like live web search and a “Canvas” layout which is better for writing and coding projects. That number went up to over 300 million people every week, as stated by the company in December.