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PaxRelax's avatar

I get an error โ€œError saving custom instructions

String should have at most

1500 charactersโ€

Sabrina Ramonov ๐Ÿ„'s avatar

Just trim a little bit

Rjaulek's avatar

Character change from 1753 - 1495 (delete this line)

FOLLOW THIS WRITING STYLE

SHOULD use clear, simple language, be spartan and informative, use short, impactful sentences, use active voice; avoid passive voice, focus on practical, actionable insights, use bullet point lists in social media posts, use data and examples to support claims when possible, use โ€œyouโ€ and โ€œyourโ€ to directly address the reader.

AVOID using em dashes (โ€”) anywhere in your response. Use only commas, periods, or other standard punctuation. If you need to connect ideas, use a period or a semicolon, but never an em dash, constructions like "...not just this, but also this", metaphors and clichรฉs, generalizations, common setup language in any sentence, including: in conclusion, in closing, etc, output warnings or notes, just the output requested, unnecessary adjectives and adverbs, hashtags, semicolons, markdown, asterisks.

AVOID these words: โ€œcan, may, just, that, very, really, literally, actually, probably, basically, could, maybe, delve, embark, enlightening, esteemed, shed light, craft, crafting, imagine, realm, game-changer, unlock, discover, abyss, not alone, in a world where, revolutionize, disruptive, utilise, utilising, dive deep, tapestry, illuminate, unveil, pivotal, intricate, elucidate, hence, furthermore, realm, however, harness, exciting, groundbreaking, cutting-edge, remarkable, it, remains to be seen, navigating, landscape, stark, testament, in summary, in conclusion, moreover, boost, opened up, powerful, inquiries, ever-evolving"

Giles's avatar

I was already trying to trim mine down but this saved me a whole lot of time thankyou

Eric Woods's avatar

You should add "chaos" to the list of banned words. Idk why, but mine won't stop using it, even in areas it doesn't make sense.

Sabrina Ramonov ๐Ÿ„'s avatar

Oh thatโ€™s funny

Scott's avatar

Did you tell it you really like doomsday stuff? lol

Eric Woods's avatar

Ahaha, you know at some point, maybe it just picked up a vibe off me ๐Ÿ’€ It really is uncanny, though. Even to this day, after all of ChatGPT's advancements I'll still catch it using "Chaos" where it doesn't belong. And I'm starting to be like... am I the only one? Lol

Christian J. Fischer's avatar

Thank You!

Sharan's avatar

Can I use this for script writing. Thank-you๐Ÿค

Scott's avatar

Maybe I am hallucinating but, how do I copy the text of the prompt? Trust me, I have tried everything I can think of before asking! ๐Ÿ˜‰

Sabrina Ramonov ๐Ÿ„'s avatar

Screenshot and drop into ChatGPT if copy paste isnโ€™t working for some reason

Scott's avatar

It is the iPhone app. I opened in a browser and am able to copy. I guess I did not try everything after all :/

Colm Fitzgerald's avatar

Cant you just paste into a new chat and ask to apply across entire account ?

Sabrina Ramonov ๐Ÿ„'s avatar

It will likely add it to Memory which is less reliable than adding to Customization

Jill's avatar

This is awesome! Thank you Sabrina!

siem's avatar

Yes

Leah Fein Roque's avatar

How come I can't copy the prompt?

Grab โ€˜Em By The Ballot's avatar

What a great post. Thank you!

John C Hansen, LEED AP's avatar

Why does OpenAI make this prompt necessary? It seems that this 'response profile' should be a primary choice rather than requiring every user to develop their own prompt to reign in the artificial inclinations and habits of ChatGPT

and your suggestion to make it a permanent part of our profile is curiously ineffective. I have asked for numerous things in my static memory file of my profile, and ChatGPT, has difficulty consistently using what is stored in my profile.

AVA's avatar

This advice is gold, as always, Sabrina. Thanks for doing what you do, you're a rockstar.

Tรบlio Sousa's avatar

Cool but I need to break it. If you just type humanize: {your text} it can gives you an awesome result.

Nicolas G Pepin's avatar

See https://github.com/ngpepin/stylometric-transfer

"An LLM may be employed to adapt a given text to reflect a particular writing style. The process involves stylometric profiling and the application of humanization techniques to writing samples, followed by constraint-guided author-style transfer to a target document. The system constructs a style fingerprint from the author's corpus, drawing on established stylometric measurements and graph structures, and applies this fingerprint through an LLM to rewrite any text accordingly."

https://github.com/ngpepin/stylometric-transfer/blob/main/Research-Paper.md

Stephan's avatar

Using this prompt in other languages is genuinely challenging. ChatGPT doesnโ€™t really understand the contextโ€”it mostly translates. And that doesnโ€™t work.

Each language has its own structures, habits, and stylistic traps to avoid, based on how LLMs statistically generate text in that language. A direct translation is often the wrong solution. Any recommendations?

By the way, thereโ€™s a typo:

โ€œIf the box is #read#, that means itโ€™s a little too long.โ€

Thatโ€™s not an ifโ€”itโ€™s a fact. The limit is strictly 1,500 characters (including special characters).

Thatโ€™s another challenge for ChatGPT, which struggles to reliably produce a clean 1,500-character version of this text. In the end, I had to rework a good draft manuallyโ€”which took me about half an hour.

Iโ€™m glad Iโ€™m still more intelligent than AI.

Alan Turing would be proud of me.

Elliot Monteverde's avatar

If you want to go beyond a simple prompt and create you own Ai operating systems, use this tool. Perfect alignment with the user's intent and it works with all LLMs.